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Saturday, February 20, 2021
Attack on Lidl, Hipp and Wild
After letter bombs: pensioners arrested
A few days ago, the explosive mail scared several food companies. Security authorities are now reporting an initial success of the investigation. They catch a suspect. So far, he has been silent on the allegations.
Following the three explosive mail attacks on food companies in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, a 66-year-old suspect is in custody. The prosecutor’s office in Heidelberg and the State Criminal Police Office in Baden-Württemberg jointly announced it. The man’s arrest had already been ordered Friday night. Special police forces detained the retiree at his home. The man from the Ulm area, previously unknown to police, offered no resistance, he said.
Initially, the suspect did not provide any information about the accusations made against him. In particular, investigations into the sea route and the type of explosive packages had led the special commission on Friday on the trail of the man, it said in the message.
In recent days, the mail had exploded in Wild’s factories in Eppelheim (Rhein-Neckar district) and at the headquarters of the Lidl supermarket chain in Neckarsulm (Heilbronn district). In Bavaria, the police intercepted for the last time an explosive mail addressed to the baby food manufacturer Hipp. Post-blast investigations were carried out at great cost of personnel. 100 officers investigated the cases.
Investigators had found the shipment destined for Hipp in Pfaffenhofen because it had been delivered to a post office in Ulm along with the package and letter to the beverage manufacturer and Lidl headquarters. “There is a connection between these three packages,” Baden-Württemberg State Police President Stefanie Hinz said on Friday. All three shipments had fictitious senders and were delivered by DHL.
The special commission of the State Criminal Police Office and the Heilbronn, Mannheim and Ulm police headquarters also dealt with similar earlier events in their investigations. A letter bomb extortionist who terrorized people in the capital region of Berlin-Brandenburg in 2017 remains at large.
