The alleged sabotage of railway infrastructure at the beginning of October demonstrated the drastic effects such attacks can have. There have also been attacks on rail infrastructure in NRW before. However, with much milder consequences.
Düsseldorf/Herne (dpa/lnw) - The four most recently known attacks on rail infrastructure in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2019 are probably not related to the serious case in Herne at the beginning of October. In three cases, the inspection of the crime allows conclusions to be drawn about perpetrators from the left spectrum, for the other crime climate activists were responsible, as the Ministry of the Interior told the German Press Agency.
A report by the state government to the state parliament, which was a topic in the transport committee on Wednesday, lists four proven attacks on rail infrastructure, systems that accompany or support rail traffic, track systems or other technology.
As the Ministry of the Interior now announced when asked, no major property damage was caused by these crimes, and there were no major effects on rail traffic. The perpetrators of the three crimes that could be assigned to "politically motivated left-wing crime" have not yet been identified.
According to current knowledge, there is no connection between the four cases and the alleged act of sabotage in Herne. There and in Berlin, essential cables for the train radio system were damaged on October 8th. Rail traffic in large parts of northern Germany then stood still for hours.
