Suspect held in Germany after spate of sabotage attacks on power grid

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The suspect had reportedly claimed responsibility for attacks on electricity substations in letters.

The attacks person led to power-generating units astatine immoderate plants being temporarily taken disconnected the grid.

A connection from the Cologne Public Prosecutor's Office and Cologne Police connected Tuesday did not supply further details connected the suspect, oregon connected the fig and whereabouts of incidents helium has been linked to.

German media person antecedently reported receiving 2 letters from the fishy claiming work for the attacks. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said the handwritten letters contained accusation that had not yet been made public.

The letters were seemingly signed with the archetypal sanction Daniel, portion his surname was kept anonymous, successful enactment with German privateness rules. The letters besides gave a residential code successful the municipality of Gevelsberg.

Cologne Police had antecedently said it was searching for a 48-year-old fishy from the municipality successful transportation with the sabotage of electrical substations successful 3 German states. Investigators had besides said explosives were recovered during a hunt of the suspect's apartment.

In Saxony alone, constabulary recovered 21 devices adjacent high-voltage powerfulness lines past Friday and Saturday.

Interior Minister Armin Schuster has admitted it could person led to a determination blackout, but helium has warned against jumping to conclusions.

"The mode this deed was committed makes this lawsuit unusual, arsenic good arsenic the mode of the confession," helium said.