An attack on the railway line between Nuremberg and Munich on October 7, according to information from the "World on Sunday" (WamS) kill many people.
On that day, the windshield of an ICE had been damaged by a steel cable, the unknown perpetrators had stretched across the railway tracks in the Middle Franconian Allersberg near Nuremberg. However, it had been too thin to derail the train, the paper said, citing investigators. It was torn by the force of the impact.
The goal was an attack "with many dead and injured," the WamS quoted the investigators.
Europe-wide attacks against rail traffic threatened
In addition to several pieces of wood and iron, according to the Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA), two threatening letters were found near the scene of the crime, one complete and one fragment.
"The two documents, each made up of one page, are written in Arabic, threatening Europe-wide attacks against rail traffic should EU countries continue to attack the terrorist militia 'Islamic State'," the jersey writes in her preliminary report.
"We take the threatening seriously, but the IS reference is still under review," said a LKA spokesman for the newspaper.