Map of the series of “unsolved” incendiary attacks in the city of Munich from 2019 to 2025, published by the local press (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, April 22, 2025)
The wave of repression (searches, summonses and arrests) against the anarchist milieu in Munich at the end of February has not succeeded in putting an end to sabotage against the city’s critical infrastructure, as demonstrated, for example, by the two incendiary attacks carried out in the course of last April.
On Tuesday night, April 9, at around 3:20 a.m., the emergency control center of Deutsche Bahn alerted the police to a cable fire in a manhole in Obermenzing, a district to the northwest of Munich. The arson attack caused extensive damage to the cable systems running alongside the tracks, with 8 of them going up in smoke: three copper cables, three fiber-optic cables and two cables used for train signalling. Rail traffic was severely disrupted throughout southern Germany, and the Nuremberg (Bavaria)-Erfurt (Thuringia) high-speed line in particular had to be closed, as the damage caused all signals in this area to turn red. Deutsche Bahn also had to cancel around 96 trains and divert 16 others.
The Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) was put in charge of the investigation, after traces of an accelerant were found on site. Investigators have also pointed out in the press that this train line is the one that leads, a little further on, directly to the armament factories in the Allach district, and that another sabotage attack against the rail network had occurred the same night on the German-Swiss border.
Munich, April 22, 2025: construction equipment fire, with the Strabag logo blurred out on the arm of the excavator in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (above), or blurred out on the rear of the same on regional TV station BR24 (below).
April’s second incendiary attack took place on Easter Monday night, Tuesday April 22, at around 3 a.m., when a backhoe and a wheel loader caught fire in the Thalkirchen district of southern Munich. The damage was estimated by the local press at 400,000 euros, and the hunt for suspects, immediately launched by police drone after a neighbor had seen the flames, was unsuccessful.
The very next day, several major regional media scoffed at the fact that the arsonists had attacked the Wolfratshausener Straße construction site, which includes the building of a new bicycle path… while carefully blurring out the company logo on the burning machines. In fact, the company in question is the much-hated Strabag, one of Europe’s biggest construction firms, involved in every conceivable infamy on the planet, and whose every new construction project means a progression of concrete deserts that already seem endless.
Meanwhile, among the series of forty-seven “unsolved arsons” that have struck Munich since 2019 and are being investigated by the special police unit “Losange” – with several tens of millions of euros of damage officially accounted for – this would be the 13th attack to date against construction machinery. A lucky number, as the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office explains: “An extreme left-wing motivation cannot be ruled out, given the target of the crime”. Police station no. 43, part of the State Security Service, was therefore put in charge of the investigation.
[Local press summary (Süddeutsche Zeitung, BR24 & München TV), April 9-25, 2025]
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