After the damage to the Nord Stream pipelines and the alleged sabotage of the railway, Interior Minister Faeser set up a coordination center to protect the critical infrastructure. Operators of important facilities should be made aware of possible attacks.
The Federal Ministry of the Interior has set up a coordination office for the individual departments to protect critical infrastructure in Germany. "I think that's appropriate in these times," Home Secretary Nancy Faeser said in an interview with Reuters TV. The coordination office is headed by her house and is staffed at the state secretary level of the ministries.
Already after the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, the operators of critical infrastructures began to be made "more capable of attacking", said the SPD politician. This has happened in all areas of critical infrastructure, such as power grids, hospitals or large transport infrastructures. "The point is that we strengthen operators, that they do something," emphasized the minister.
For this reason, the "Kritis" law for critical infrastructures is also being introduced. "There we will also place very specific requirements on the critical infrastructure operators," said Faeser. "We want to set there what standards they must have. And I think it's important and right to do it legally." In the investigations into the sabotage files against the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, there are "no new findings so far," said Faeser. It is not yet possible to say who is responsible. "But of course we're going to stay tuned because of course we want to know who caused it."
Even with the alleged sabotage against Deutsche Bahn, there is still no concrete evidence of who is responsible, said Faeser. She thinks it is right that, as with Nord Stream, the Attorney General has taken over the investigation and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) is also involved. Faeser said that no suspected responsible person - such as left-wing extremist circles or a state actor like Russia - can be excluded. "And that's why you just have to follow up on all the findings." She hopes that in this case, too, it will ultimately be clear who is responsible. "We have to investigate and see that we avoid that in the future."
