Flags on the Bundestag building in Berlin, Germany. File photoBERLIN, Oct 15Against the background of the Nord Stream attack and the damage to the cables of the Deutsche Bahn network, German Interior Minister Nancy Feser promised to improve the protection of critical infrastructure and urged operators to build new facilities to protect it. «Protecting our critical infrastructure has the highest priority,» the minister said in a statement. interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The security authorities, she added, are taking «additional protective measures where required.» Thus, the protection of maritime infrastructure has been strengthened by a significant increase in the presence of the federal police at sea. Feather announced that later this year she will present to the Cabinet the key points of a new law on critical infrastructure. Operators of critical facilities will be required by law to “comprehensively arm themselves” against hazards such as natural disasters, terrorism, sabotage, and human error. core failure case.
The Russian embassy issued a note of protest to the German Foreign Ministry against acts of vandalismThe destruction of pipelines in the Baltic Sea and sabotage in the Deutsche Bahn power grid clearly showed, Feser stressed, that the situation had changed for the worse.A week ago, Deutsche Bahn reported technical malfunctions, as a result of which traffic was completely paralyzed long-distance trains in northern Germany. It was later restored, but subsequently there were failures and delays of trains. Later, the German news agency dpa, citing a representative of Deutsche Bahn, reported that the stoppage of train traffic was caused by sabotage. The attacks occurred on September 26 at once on two Russian export gas pipelines to Europe — Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2. Germany, Denmark and Sweden do not rule out targeted sabotage. The Nord Stream operator Nord Stream AG reported that the state of emergency on gas pipelines was unprecedented and it was impossible to estimate the timing of repairs. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation initiated a case on an act of international terrorism after the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
