Bergheim: Investigators find six launching devices after substation disruption
Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Investigators found six launching devices in a field after an incident at a substation in Bergheim near Cologne.
- Police believe the devices were designed to fire pyrotechnic objects that would carry a wire above power lines.
Investigators found six launching devices in a field after a disruption at a substation in Bergheim, near Cologne.
Michael Esser, the senior criminal investigations director, said the devices appeared to have been built to use pyrotechnic objects to carry a wire into the air above the power lines.
It can be assumed that these devices were built to use pyrotechnic objects to carry a wire into the air above the power lines.
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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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