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"Every substation, every power plant, every pipeline can be attacked"

Bundeswehr General Carsten Breuer has warned of further attacks on the infrastructure in Germany.

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"Every substation, every power plant, every pipeline can be attacked"

Bundeswehr General Carsten Breuer has warned of further attacks on the infrastructure in Germany. "Every substation, every power plant, every pipeline can be attacked, can be a possible target," said the commander of the Bundeswehr's territorial command of the "Bild am Sonntag". “Here in command, we are primarily prepared for hybrid threats. This is the state between not quite peace anymore, but not really war either.”

The background is Russia's attack on Ukraine and the new security situation in Europe. “Russia's war has brought our focus back to national and collective defence. It has become clear to the whole country: War in Europe is possible again.”

Attacks and influence from abroad could increase. "This is not about an enemy army with soldiers and tanks attacking our country," emphasized Breuer.

“But there is influence, with attacks on infrastructure and cyber attacks, or, for example, reconnaissance flights with drones over barracks. In other words, pinpricks in the population, which should stir up uncertainty among us and shake confidence in our state. ”The security authorities would have to adjust to this threat, Breuer told the newspaper.

"Hysteria is a bad advisor," pointed out the Bundeswehr general. However, it should be clear to every citizen "that they should change their individual behavior" - this includes, for example, the mental attitude or the purchase of a flashlight and a radio with sufficient batteries for the home, i.e. independent of the power supply from the socket.

Contradiction to the General's statements came from the SPD. The transport policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Dorothee Martin, told the news portal "T-Online" according to a preliminary report: "I do not share Carsten Breuer's analysis. Of course the situation is serious, we are analyzing exactly how the sabotage on the train could have happened. But that is no reason to panic, because of course we are in a state of peace in Germany.”

On Saturday there was a large-scale failure of train traffic in northern Germany for several hours. The reason was two severed fiber optic cables, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser speaks of "deliberate acts", the state security determined.

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