Germany investigates drone flights over industrial park

Investigators in northern Germany confirmed on Thursday that they were investigating suspicious drone activity over an industrial park in Brunsbüttel, following media reports about the case.

“The Flensburg public prosecutor’s office confirms the launching of an investigation due to the suspicion of espionage activity for sabotage purposes, in connection with repeated drone flights over critical infrastructure in Schleswig-Holstein,” a spokesman for prosecutors in nearby Flensburg told the AFP news agency, issuing similar comments to others.

The industrial park around the harbor in Brunsbüttel, northwest of Hamburg near the mouth of the River Elbe where it enters the North Sea, is home to a new floating liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal.

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