Erkrath (Germany): attempted sabotage of an electrical transformer by Angry Birds Commando

Attempted sabotage of an electrical transformer

Communiqué no. 7

Dear reader,

We have probably never met, but we still know a few things about you. We know that you ingested dioxin and PCBs through your mother’s milk; that you were exposed to a cocktail of natural, radioactive, and electromagnetic radiation from a very young age. And we know that several grams of microplastics have already accumulated in your blood, kidneys, liver, and even your brain.

What we don’t know is when you will finally recognize these daily assaults for what they are. When will you take it all personally? How much are you willing to take? And why? When will you fight back? Will you ever?
Where is your limit?
We have reached our limits. That is why, some time ago, we placed an incendiary device under the two transformers at the Unterfeldhaus substation. This was mainly intended to affect the Max-Planck-Straße industrial area. It was still warm at the time; our aim was not to freeze the residents of the neighborhood without warning. We will not provide any more precise information about the timing—the police can make an effort to find out.

We filled 18 500ml plastic bottles with 9 liters of firelighter fluid and placed them in a large cooking pot. We used a pyrotechnic igniter rather than an electrical one to avoid the risk of ignition failure due to the strong electromagnetic fields from the transformer. We also spray-painted “KAB” [Kommando Angry Birds] and “SWITCH OFF” in red on a wall.

We don’t know how badly the transformer was damaged. We’ll probably only find out the details if we go to court. If the ignition did indeed fail, we were at least able to show that it’s child’s play to break into transformer stations without getting caught.

Our best regards to the right-wing clowns who regularly wish us jail time on their forums and comment sections. Save yourself the trouble—if we were afraid of prison, we wouldn’t be doing this.

It is precisely because we take the possiblity of being convicted into account that we share our methods and thoughts as openly as possible with others. In the weeks following this action, we tested timers and thought about what to do next. The results can be found in the attached text.

Angry Birds Commando

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[Note of Sans Nom: On January 5, 2026, the Angry Birds Commando released a communiqué announcing that it had attacked an electrical substation in Erkrath, near Düsseldorf, “some time ago” with the aim of shutting down the industrial zone located further away. It should be noted that this group has been active in the region since 2023, publishing both numbered communiqués for sabotage (which can be found here) and technical manuals to spread the practice. This time, the Wuppertal public prosecutor’s office stated that after the communiqué was published, the police went to the scene and found an incendiary device that had failed to detonate, commenting that “if it had worked, it could have caused a large-scale power outage.”
Below is a translation of communiqué No. 7, published on de.indymedia on January 5, which included a small brochure in German (entitled “Move fast and break things,” see the end of the original link).]

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Translated by Act for freedom Now!