Overview

• A security guard in Baesweiler’s Setterich district detained a 45-year-old found inside a construction shell shortly after 2:20 a.m. on September 2.
• Officers seized cables already packed in a backpack and two bags and confiscated a sabre and a dagger from the Baesweiler suspect.
• Police estimate mid–five-figure damage from cut cables at the Baesweiler site, and the detainee admitted he intended to sell the material to fund drug use.
• At former industrial sites in Bottrop and Recklinghausen, police arrested a 47-year-old and a 34-year-old after thick copper cables were removed.
• A police dog tracked the 47-year-old to a rooftop at the former Prosper-Haniel site around 5:30 p.m., and authorities say inquiries into additional suspects are ongoing.