Munich : railway crane on fire!

At around 2.40 am on Saturday October 28, the fire department was called to a fire on the railway tracks at Unterföhring, in the north-eastern suburbs of Munich. While sabotage of infrastructure of all kinds occurs regularly in Germany and elsewhere, this time the Bavarian fire brigade were in for a pleasant surprise. It was no less than a huge, multi-ton railway crane that went up in flames, used for work on the tracks between Johanneskirchen and Munich International Airport.

It took the fire department almost an hour to extinguish the blaze, and 2,000 liters of oil had to be pumped from the tank as the crane’s hydraulic line was damaged. Although no figures have been put on the extent of the damage to the colossus, two days later it was revealed that, according to the police, the cause was not only deliberate, but also “politically motivated arson”. To this end, investigators are trying to make the connection with the series of similar fires that have occurred in Upper Bavaria in recent months.

In July, anonymous arsonists set fire to fiber-optic cables on Munich’s Föhringer Ring, causing a bridge over the Isar River to remain closed to heavy goods traffic for days. In early October, anonymous arsonists also started several fires at the site of the future Polling geothermal power plant and on the nearby Tüßling – Mühldorf railroad line, causing an estimated 2.5 million euros worth of damage. And just a week ago, anonymous arsonists also set fire to three sections of the new pipeline under construction at the Grünwald geothermal power plant south of Munich.

via: sansnom

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