Munich : geothermal energy gets hot (and not only)
On Wednesday October 18, Munich’s reluctant public prosecutor issued a statement designed to reassure the brave Bavarian electorate. This time, it wasn’t a question of licking the hand of the authorities, as usual, but of making public a few facts about a case that has been giving him a hard time since the beginning of the month. He thus announced the creation of a specialized group called “Geo”, made up of various investigators from the criminal investigation department, whose aim is to study the sabotage committed throughout Bavaria. Indeed, it’s perhaps no coincidence that the local press was already alarmed last week that “politically-motivated acts have increased considerably” in the region of late, particularly against communication, transport and energy infrastructures.
The name of this police task force, announced with great fanfare by the public prosecutor, refers to the triple sabotage incident in Polling, a village some 50 km east of Munich, which took place around 3.30 a.m. on Sunday night, October 2. There, under the stars and in just a few minutes, ten construction machines and the electrical transformer on the site of a geothermal power plant under construction, as well as a timber extraction vehicle parked in the adjacent forest and a cable shaft along the Mühldorf-Garching railroad line, went up in smoke.
In view of the damage caused (estimated at 2.5 million euros) to the future geothermal power plant in the industrial zone – where drilling for hot water at a depth of 2,600 meters began in April – and to Deutsche Bahn, whose rail services between Salzburg (Austria) and Munich (Germany) were interrupted, the case was quickly referred to the Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET).
While a helicopter of cops had flown over the area that very night in vain in search of possible suspects, and anti-terrorism experts had visited the various sites over the following days to analyze them and comb the surrounding area, it is now the “Geo” investigation group that will exchange the information gathered on site with all the police services of Bavaria in order to broaden its investigation into “similar” attacks…
via: sansnom translated by Act for freedom now!