After another incident, German police search for suspect

German police have found nine more homemade explosive devices near high-voltage power lines in Saxony, bringing the number discovered there to 21 since the first incidents last week.

The latest devices were found near an electricity substation close to Schleife, about 15 kilometers from the Polish border. Special forces from Saxony’s State Criminal Police Office neutralized them. Dresden prosecutors, the state criminal police office and the Görlitz police directorate have appealed to the public for information.

Investigators are searching for a 48-year-old climate activist whom they suspect of involvement in the incidents. Police said the devices were used to throw explosives over power lines and take them out of service. Dresden police and prosecutors said the devices were intended to damage high-voltage lines by causing short circuits, but added that the electricity network was not damaged and the public faced no danger.

The incidents have centered mainly in Brandenburg and Saxony, as well as North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. Officers carried out a large search on Sunday in forests near Cologne but found no trace of the suspect. On Friday, police found explosives in his apartment in Gevelsberg. A special operations unit later raided a truck converted into a camper in a forest near Niederzier, about 100 kilometers away, but the man was not inside.

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These devices were intended to damage high-voltage power lines by causing short circuits.