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. The ride of the train was continued because the technology had worked properly.
The rope had been too thin to derail the train, reports the WamS, citing investigators. It was torn by the force of the impact. The goal was an attack "with many dead and injured," the investigators said the report.
Europe-wide attacks against rail traffic threatened
In the vicinity of the scene were next to several pieces of wood and iron according to Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA) also two threatening letters have been found, a completely preserved and a fragment. An Arab graffiti on a bridge pier also documented the officials.
"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.