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Munich (Germany): ghosts continue to haunt the night    

via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!

Munich, ghosts continue to haunt the night    

Around 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday night, April 4, Munich firefighters were alerted to a major blaze in the Meillerweg district, just a few hundred meters from the Maximilianeum, the historic seat of the Bavarian State Parliament. On the scene, they discovered four pieces of construction equipment being consumed by flames: a backhoe, two wheel loaders and a Unimog (a small Mercedes all-terrain utility truck).

Except that this is not just any old place, because in addition to being a stone’s throw from the Palace of the Rulers of the Kingdom of Bavaria, it’s also the construction site for the second main line of the capital’s S-Bahn subway system. To be more precise, it involved relocating a district heating pipe to build a relief shaft from the railway tunnel. The four machines, located far apart, were completely destroyed, with damage running into six figures. The Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) and the “Raute” investigation group were on the scene with sniffer dogs and forensic police.

Fortunately for them, the minions of law and order have a serious lead, as revealed by a major regional newspaper a few weeks later (Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 10): it’s probably ghosts, perhaps escaped from Ludwig II’s famous castle at Neuschwanstein (but on this last point, the cops are less formal).Let’s be the judge, since with this latest sabotage against the subway construction site, investigators are now attributing some 30 destructive attacks to Munich’s ghosts, causing at least 20 million euros worth of damage: “They set fire to power lines and construction equipment, telecoms antennas and electric vehicles; railroads are also the target of their attacks, as are geothermal pipelines. The identity of the perpetrators and their origins remain a mystery. Like ghosts, they leave no exploitable trace and no statement claiming the action. Who has an interest in attacking the critical infrastructure of Greater Munich? This is the question security services have been asking themselves since the series of attacks began at least three years ago.The damage caused so far is approaching the €20 million mark.”

For our part, not being specter hunters but nonetheless inclined to satisfy curious readers, we reproduce below the (non-exhaustive) list of some thirty of these generally anonymous sabotages that struck communication, energy, transport and war infrastructures in the Bavarian region.

 

All have appeared in the regional press, and have been relayed here when they occured:

  • On March 12, 2019,Vodafone telecom cables were set on fire on Munich’s John Kennedy Bridge
  • On December 19, 2019,ditto against Vodafone and municipal services fiber optic cables on the Leinthal and Herzog-Heinrich bridges.
  • On May 22, 2020, the Bavarian Radio antenna was set on fire in Munich during the night.
  • On July 8, 2020, a cell antenna was set on fire on Theodor-Heuss square in the Neuperlach district of Munich.
  • On December 31, 2020 the cables of several Internet and telephone connection cabinets were severed in the Neuperlach district.
  • On May 21, 2021,around 50 medium-voltage power cables were set on fire at a municipal energy company construction site in Munich.
  • August 2021, 350 meters of a gravel pit conveyor belt are set on fire in Plannegg, near the Kasten forest estate.
  • On November 3, 2021, buildings, a conveyor belt and several construction machines at a gravel pit were set on fire in Oberhaching.
  • On February 10, 2022,  two excavators were set on fire on the site of the demolition of the Eggarten garden city in Munich.
  • On March 28, 2022, some twenty panes of glass were damaged or destroyed in two buildings housing war companies. A “Sabotage War” tag is found on site.
  • On June 22, 2022 ,eight riot police vans pre-positioned for the G7 summit in the city were set on fire in the Hochstrasse district of Munich.
  • On July 25, 2022,/five trucks, five trailers, an excavator and 25 drums of fiber optic cable were set on fire at a storage site in the Obersendling district.
  • On August 1, 2022,the cable shaft of the Mering signal box was set on fire, causing major disruption to rail traffic.
  • On November 19, 2022, two cars were set on fire in the parking lot of the Bundeswehr University in Munich’s Neubiberg district.
  • On May 19, 2023, two electric cars belonging to the Munich municipal services were set on fire. A tag reading “No HKW” (the municipal thermal waste incineration plant) was found next to them.
  • On May 26, 2023, 26 reels of fiber-optic cable were set on fire at a construction site in the Harlaching district.
  • June 9, 2023, a Telekom antenna was set on fire in the Waldtrudering district.
  • On June 26, 2023, a ZDF satellite transmission truck was set on fire in Munich’s Glockenbach district.
  • On July 8, 2023,telecoms cable shafts and an excavator were set on fire along the Herzog-Heinrich bridge.
  • On July 26, 2023, several pieces of equipment were set alight on the site of the Pôle Scientifique subway railway in Plannegg.
  • August 2, 2023,two German army trucks are set on fire in Ingolstadt.
  • On August 16, 2023, an asphalt mixing machine was set on fire on the A94 freeway construction site near Anzing.
  • On October 2, 2023, ten construction machines and an electrical transformer were set on fire at the site of a geothermal power plant under construction in Polling.
  • On October 28, 2023, a train-mounted railway crane was set on fire on the outskirts of Unterföhring.
  • On November 10, 2023,  an excavator and a dump truck are set on fire at the Munich tramway construction site.
  • On December 12, 2023, three fires occur on the same night, one against forestry machinery in the Perlach forest and in the Forstenrieder park, and another in Munich against fiber-optic cables on the Ludwigsbrücke bridge.
  • On December 15, 2023, two forestry machines were set on fire in the Forstenrieder Park near Pullach.
  • On February 5, 2024, buildings, two wheel loaders and several conveyor belts of a gravel extraction plant were set on fire in Kirchseeon.
  • On April 4, 2024, four pieces of equipment were set on fire at the Munich subway railway construction site.

[German press summary, June 2, 2024]