German police probing ‘political motive’ after train cables were cut – as country remains on high alert for Russian sabotage

The German police said that after the train cables were cut, they were investigating a possible ‘political motive’ and they were highly alert for sabotage from Russia.

Authorities announced on Monday that the cables between Cologne and Dusseldorf were cut: ’01: 15 discovered a few cables on a cable shaft in Leverkusen’s Rheindorf region ‘.

Cologne police, a significant deduction in the services in the region, ‘currently a political motivation can not be excluded,’ he said.

The incident occurred in the densely populated part of West Germany and caused chaos for vehicles in the region on Monday morning.

Police, politically motivated crimes specialized civil servants were investigated and ‘pre -sales sales were identified’, he said.

A suspicious cyber attack comes after thousands of air passengers encounter with chaos on Friday, as they injure electronic check-in and boarding facilities.

The same strike was paralyzed at Brussels Airport, half of all flights were canceled.

There were also deductions in Berlin, Dublin and Cork – and there were warnings that the turmoil could continue for days.

When the National Cyber ​​Security Center-Gchq’s public branch launched an investigation, experts blamed Russia groups.

Russian Jets entered the sky of Estonia and flying on the sovereign territory for 12 minutes and violated the NATO airspace for hours after the attack came for hours.

A former British military intelligence officer warned that the cyber attack, which crippled Heathrow and other European airports, has ‘all the distinctive features of the Russians’.

At the beginning of the month, the Russian GPS jam was suspected of sabotaging the jet of the European Commission Chief Ursula von De Leyen on his way to Bulgaria.

When the Aircraft, which carries the EU chief, suddenly disabled the GPS navigation system, he had to go down to Plovdiv using only paper maps.

The Bulgarian officials told the European Commission at the time, the event was probably the result of a ‘open’ Russian sabotage operation.

GPS, which disrupts access to the satellite -based navigation system, is a tactic that Russia used to destroy the civilian life before.

Technical historically used by military and intelligence services to protect sensitive places.

European Commission spokesman Arianna Podesta, “ We can verify that there is really a GPS jam, but the plane landed in Bulgaria safely, ” he said.

‘We received information from the Bulgarian authorities that this was due to Russia’s open intervention.’

“The entire airport area GPS was darkened,” Financial Times said.

The pilot finally had to take the airport into the apartment for an hour before deciding to descend manually – using analog maps only when electronic navigation aids were disabled.

“ `Undeniable intervention, ” he added.

At the beginning of this month, tens of thousands of people remained weak in Berlin, the capital, after a fire hit the electrical cables in what the police label a suspicious arson attack.

In this case, the police said that after an anonymous anarchist group was published online, they were investigating a possible political motive.

Last month, the three fire hit a part of the German railway network and a distant group called the ‘Angry Birds Commando’.

After Russia’s full -scale invasion of Russia in 2022, he became the second largest aid supplier to Ukraine, and accused Moscow for increasing efforts in the hybrid war ‘.

A report written by the Internal Intelligence Agency last week found that the costs of German enterprises from Russia and China from cyber attacks and sabotage have passed to 289 billion euros ($ 342 billion) in the last 12 months.

German authorities recently launched a campaign warning against Russia’s efforts to recruit ‘disposable agents’ through social media to carry out Russia’s espionage and sabotage actions.