After the cable fire along the Berlin Ringbahn lines S41 and S42 in Wedding, the State Criminal Police Office is investigating. According to S-Bahn information, it is vandalism.
It is currently unclear whether there is a political motive: “We still have no investigative information and cannot yet say anything about the cause,” said one police spokeswoman. According to the police
An employee of the S-Bahn noticed a fire in a cable duct in Wedding yesterday afternoon. Around 3 p.m., the train driver noticed smoke developing on a signal mast next to the track system between Wedding and Westhafen stations and dialed the emergency call.
Other S-Bahn employees tried to extinguish the fire when the fire brigade arrived. Train traffic on lines S41 and S42 was stopped immediately.
Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the flames. But the damage could be immense, because according to current knowledge, the signaling system was damaged in the fire.
Nobody got hurt. The investigations, especially into the cause of the fire, were carried out by the state police of the State Criminal Police Office.
The state security agency responsible for politically motivated crimes in the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) investigates if there is a suspicion that acts were committed by extremists or if there is a political motive behind them.
Multiple failures
The section of the Ringbahn between the Beusselstraße and Wedding stops will remain interrupted until further notice, said a spokesman for the Berlin S-Bahn. A replacement bus service has been set up.