{"id":1483541,"date":"2024-08-14T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1483541"},"modified":"2024-08-14T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:55:00","slug":"german-military-base-locked-down-after-suspected-sabotage-to-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/german-military-base-locked-down-after-suspected-sabotage-to-water-supply\/1483541\/","title":{"rendered":"German Military Base Locked Down After\u00a0Suspected Sabotage To Water Supply\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">German Military Base Locked Down After\u00a0Suspected Sabotage To Water Supply\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>A German military base, home to thousands of troops, was placed under lockdown on Wednesday following a suspected sabotage targeting its water supply, according to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/koeln-wahn-verdacht-auf-sabotage-gegen-die-bundeswehr-kontaminiertes-leitungswasser-a-c4754c35-c380-4a92-a6b9-d2ecb140bc99?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter#ref=rss\">Spiegel magazine<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Die Bundeswehrkaserne K\u00f6ln-Wahn ist abgeriegelt. Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen gehen die Beh\u00f6rden dem Verdacht einer Straftat nach. Soldaten d\u00fcrfen kein Trinkwasser entnehmen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7ICbP2IZtW\">https:\/\/t.co\/7ICbP2IZtW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DER SPIEGEL (@derspiegel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derspiegel\/status\/1823628012182757454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials at the Cologne-Wahn military base,\u00a0which has 4,300 soldiers and 1,200 civilian employees, informed all military personnel and employees not to drink the water as they believed it had been contaminated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Military police and the military intelligence agency found damage to a stretch of fence on the base&#8217;s perimeter, with reason to believe someone illegally entered the base. Spiegel said officials are investigating all alleged crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more from Spiegel:<\/p>\n<p><em>In an internal communication from the Bundeswehr&#8217;s Territorial Command (TFK), personnel still in the barracks are asked to speak to &#8220;unknown persons within sight&#8221; and to report &#8220;any suspicious behavior.&#8221; This is an indication that the authorities are searching the area for possible perpetrators. Already on Wednesday night, there were internal reports from the Bundeswehr that a suspicious person had been spotted near the fence around the barracks and had fled after being discovered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The TFK&#8217;s statement also states that the barracks will remain sealed off until further notice \u2013 &#8220;neither in nor out.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Territorial Command in Berlin confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/german-military-base-sealed-off-due-suspected-sabotage-act-reports-spiegel-2024-08-14\/\">Reuters<\/a> that the military base was locked down but declined to provide more information on what that entailed. He said,\u00a0&#8220;We have our reasons for taking this action, and we take the case seriously.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cologne-Wahn is a critical military hub that supports war efforts in Ukraine. It also houses\u00a0military aircraft used for travel by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his ministers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 08\/14\/2024 &#8211; 06:55<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/military\/german-military-base-locked-down-after-suspected-sabotage-water-supply\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/military\/german-military-base-locked-down-after-suspected-sabotage-water-supply<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Military Base Locked Down After\u00a0Suspected Sabotage To Water Supply\u00a0 A German military base, home to thousands of troops, was placed under lockdown on Wednesday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}