Overview
- A deliberate nighttime fire at MAN’s Paunsdorfer Straße site in Leipzig burned out 20 civilian trucks and damaged eight more with no injuries reported and damage estimated at several million euros.
- The Saxony Landeskriminalamt’s Polizeiliches Terrorismus- und Extremismus-Abwehrzentrum (PTAZ) has taken over the case because investigators do not rule out a political motive.
- Investigators are securing nearby business and petrol-station CCTV, asking allotment gardeners to hand over wildlife-camera footage, and publishing a tip line for public leads.
- Authorities are exploring a possible link to a late‑September arson at MAN’s Barleben site that destroyed three Bundeswehr trucks and drew a claim from a group using the Ulrike Meinhof name.
- MAN’s work for military and police programs, including a joint venture with Rheinmetall that builds military carriers, makes the firm a known target for extremists and shapes the scope of the ongoing investigation.