On Monday night, November 26, two excavators went up in smoke in the Au-Haidhausen district of southeast Munich. More precisely, at around 3 a.m., they went up in flames in Zeppelinstrasse, where a bicycle path extension project was underway. The two burnt-out construction machines belonged to the Strabag Group, one of Europe’s largest construction companies, involved in every conceivable infamy on the planet.

In the prison-city that serves as Bavaria’s capital, this is of course not the first time that construction equipment has been set ablaze at night, each time causing “several tens of thousands of euros” worth of damage, as on this chilly late November day. Since 2019, the police have counted no fewer than thirty such incendiary attacks in and around Munich, a review of which can be found here.

So, as always, it was the Raute Special Investigation Group – tasked with solving this series of anonymous sabotages – that went to the scene, while the criminal police were put in charge of the investigation. And in keeping with well-established protocol, a helicopter was also launched into the air in search of the arsonists as soon as a passer-by raised the alarm, but to no avail…

[Bavarian press summary (Süddeutsche Zeitung), November 25, 2024]

Translated by Act for freedom now! via: sansnom.