Claim: German Green Automobile Sabotage is a Russian Disinformation Campaign
Essay by Eric Worrall
Greens are claiming for once it wasn’t them.
Germany: Police suspect Russia behind car vandalism
Matt Ford with AFP, dpa02/05/2025February 5, 2025
A criminal campaign which saw over 270 car exhausts stuffed with expanding construction foam is suspected to have been Russian sabotage aimed at discrediting the Green Party, according to German authorities.
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What we know about the car vandalism
Over 270 vehicles in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg, as well as in the southern states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, had their exhaust pipes blocked with expanding construction foam.
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Stickers were then left on the damaged cars depicting Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck, the Green Party’s chancellor candidate in the upcoming federal election, and bearing the message: “Be greener!”
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Prosecutors in the southern city of Ulm also have four suspects in their sights. A police spokesman said four men – a German, a Serb, a Romanian and a Bosnian aged 17, 18, 20 and 29 – were suspected of 123 counts of vandalism, with tins of construction foam found during house searches.
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