Munich, an eventful Sunday night
Last Monday, the zealous mouthpieces of the Bavarian prefecture were a little disoriented in their reports of the Sunday news. Whereas the first weekend of December had been marked by snowfalls that temporarily blocked rail and air traffic in Munich, the following weekend saw heat spikes that were as sudden as they were unusual. The fires were anything but accidental, and came at the very beginning of winter, putting a number of structures of domination out of action.
Without an image, without a word, and in three different places: in the Forstenrieder forest to the south-west of the city, in the Perlach forest further south, and also right in the middle of Munich, under a bridge spanning the Isar river. In the first two cases which were a bit more rural, as one major regional newspaper put it, “it would be a huge coincidence if two heavy, bulky and expensive forestry machines far apart from each other were to catch fire at the same time due to technical faults”. In each case, it was a tree feller – a machine costing 500,000 euros apiece to cut, delimb and chop down trees in no time at all – that went up in flames under the stars.
The third attack, which occurred at around 3:30 a.m., with raging flames shooting out of a cable shaft, affected a fiber optic node containing almost 20,000 connections. The node was located on a construction site next to a pedestrian bridge that was being built to renovate Munich’s central Ludwigsbrücke bridge. In particular, the fire disrupted the regional network of provider NGN Fiber Network, cutting off all municipal services in towns as far apart as 30 kilometers, such as Holzkirchen (population 15,000).
The investigations into the three fires on Sunday night (December 11) were entrusted to a group of specialized investigators (known as EG “Raute”), set up a few weeks ago by the Munich Police Headquarters to investigate similar cases. The Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) has been tasked by the public prosecutor’s office with following up the case, since these new attacks “can be attributed to the series of arson attacks against infrastructure and construction equipment in the Munich metropolitan area and Upper Bavaria, which have been occupying investigators for months. The damage is in the millions, and the perpetrators are suspected of belonging to the far-left.”
[German regional media summary (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Merkur & BR24), December 11-12, 2023]
via: sansnom
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