A German army general warns of Russian sabotage in Germany. Because important plans can be found freely on the Internet, it makes things easy for attackers. In one case, Russia may have already taken advantage of this.
Lieutenant General André Bodemann has been reviewing Germany’s war capability for the Bundeswehr in recent months. When drawing up the “Operations Plan for Germany” he uncovered numerous deficiencies. One is particularly frightening, as the general explains in the “Spiegel” interview.
According to Bodemann, the plan of all the pumping stations of the NATO pipeline can be found freely available on the Internet. “That doesn’t belong there,” he stresses. “We can’t disclose that because it gives the enemy everything they need for attacks.”
The pipeline is intended to supply fuel to the military alliance’s forces. For this purpose it was achieved during the Cold War. The Central Europe Pipeline System runs through Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany. In this country it supplies, among others, the Büchel air base, the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield and the Ramstein Air Base.
A cache of explosives was recently found near the pipeline in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Koblenz Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that no suspect could be identified.
But Bodemann expresses a suspicion in “Spiegel”: “It wasn’t old RAF stuff and it wasn’t Bundeswehr material or ammunition either. “It was dumped there about a year or a year and a half ago.” He suspects there are concrete attack plans.
There is a strong suspicion that the camp may be the result of Russian activities. The case is reminiscent of the blowing up of the Nordstream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. There, too, Russia is repeatedly listed as a suspect. However, this has not been clearly clarified to date.
The Austrian military expert Markus Reisner told FOCUS Online that the lack of information was irresponsible: “In my view, it must be in the interests of those bordering the Baltic Sea to have a complete picture of the situation and to identify those responsible.”
Lieutenant General Bodemann doesn’t want such attacks to happen in the first place: “Everyone has to change their behavior. We also have to handle sensitive data more sensitively,” he told “Spiegel”.
This is urgently necessary because there are people “who are already prepared to prevent the deployment movement from happening as smoothly as we imagine” in the event of X. Such thugs, who could hinder the mobilization of the Bundeswehr, are known from the 1970s and 1980s.