The “Angry Birds Commando” group said they placed incendiary devices on a railroad between the two busy cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf. The group blamed industrial technology for the destruction of the environment.
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The “Angry Birds Commando” group, in a letter posted on German left-wing website indymedia.org, said it placed incendiary devices on the railway line between Cologne and Düsseldorf.
A fire was ignited in two places between the German city of Leverkusen and the town of Langenfeld on Friday morning, stopping train operations and causing disruption. Firefighters extinguished the flames but the damage on the track remained.
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Repair work on the train line is expected to continue through Saturday afternoon. The act of vandalism has caused cancellations and delays, and it’s unclear when normal operations will resume.
German dpa news agency cited security sources who suspect the letter is genuine.
Meanwhile, Cologne police say an investigation has been launched and have put out a call for witnesses.
The “Angry Birds Commando” group has claimed responsbility for earlier sabotage, causing disruption on train line used by Deutsche Bahn between the cities of Düsseldorf and Duisdorf in 2025.
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And how is that a leftist ideology?
Assuming this is a serious question, they actually address this in their communiqué.
If you consider the system is destroying the environment at a worrying rate, and also that any response from within the system (ie electoralism) will be captured and neutered, and that any sufficiently large or long-lived organisation will abandon its stated aims in order to prioritize its own survival and the well-being of its leaders… Autonomous cells that act against the system is a rational outcome. Probably they are also contributing to building up an alternative to the present system.
And they strike railways because there are long stretches of unguarded railways, it’s easy to disable them if they are electrified, and since that prevents trains from running they won’t cause accidents. Disabling a road or an airport is a lot harder. But trains are nontheless central infrastructure to the industrial society they are opposed to.