Overview
- Police found twelve explosive devices at two substations in Saxony on Saturday and say investigators linked two authentic claim letters to a suspect they are now searching for.
- Officers are seeking a 48-year-old man from Gevelsberg who is tied by authorities to the two claim letters left at the sites.
- Recent sabotage reports include attacks on substations in Brandenburg and Nordrhein-Westfalen and earlier June fires at two Reutlingen substations that cut power to about 7,600 households.
- Security officials say a drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport was narrowly prevented around the same period, raising concern that attackers are widening targets beyond electricity nodes.
- Baden-Württemberg’s minister-president Cem Özdemir has urged the Länder to speed up protective steps such as fences and video surveillance while officials balance the cost, logistics and civil‑liberties implications of hardening hundreds of dispersed sites.