In the night to Friday, cable shafts on railroad lines were set on fire at three locations in the Hamburg city area. A letter of confession appeared on the left-wing radical platform Indymedia, which police say is part of the investigation.
As for the letter of confession, it says “In the night of September 7, we sabotaged traffic arteries of the capitalist infrastructure in Hamburg.” According to the letter, the act of sabotage was intended to lead to the longest possible cancellations or restrictions in rail freight traffic. The act was supposed to involve sections of track “that are not used for passenger traffic,” primarily targetting the rail grid of the seaport of Hamburg. That failed, instead passenger transfers between Hamburg and Rostock and Hamburg and Berlin, as well as in a broader region of northern Germany got disrupted on all of Friday and a good part of saturday as well.
