Germany probes coordinated sabotage at power substations, hazardous alert at Berlin airport

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German authorities are investigating a series of coordinated sabotage attacks on power substations and a hazardous substance alert at Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
On Tuesday, unknown assailants used homemade flying devices resembling fireworks to launch conductive material at a substation near the Jänschwalde power plant in Brandenburg, briefly disrupting a power block but avoiding a wider blackout. More than a dozen such devices were later found. Hours later, a similar attack targeted a substation in Bergheim near Cologne, where authorities also discovered launch devices and pyrotechnics. Brandenburg Interior Minister Jan Redmann said evidence increasingly suggests both incidents were part of a coordinated assault on Germany’s energy supply .
Police in Brandenburg confirmed receiving a claim of responsibility for the Jänschwalde attack and are verifying its authenticity. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul stated there were “many parallels” between the two incidents .
Separately, on Thursday, a woman at Berlin Brandenburg Airport reported carrying toxic substances in her handbag, prompting the evacuation of Terminal 1. Police arrested her and cordoned off the area while firefighters in protective gear investigated. Check-in operations were shifted to Terminal 2, and train services to the airport were suspended. Authorities later declared the alert resolved and reopened the terminal .
A third suspicious object, possibly a launch device, was found near a substation in Dormagen between Cologne and Düsseldorf. Police are examining whether it was functional or a hoax .
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