Two detained as German police probe arson attack on Munich defence firm

BERLIN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - ‌German police ​are ​investigating a suspected politically motivated arson attack at a construction site ‌outside the Munich headquarters of defence technology ⁠company Rohde & Schwarz, authorities said on Thursday.

A Bavarian ‌police spokesperson confirmed an ‌investigation into suspected arson but said there was currently no evidence that the attack ​had been directed specifically at Rohde & Schwarz.

The police spokesperson said a 28-year-old ⁠woman and a 38-year-old man, both Bulgarian nationals, were arrested ​in connection with the incident.

The fire caused no significant damage and was quickly ​extinguished. No one was ‌injured, police said.

Rohde & Schwarz confirmed that an incident had occurred at ⁠a construction site near its headquarters.

German authorities are on high alert for attacks on infrastructure ⁠after the government this week said Russia was behind ​an attempted drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle airport last month.

German Interior Minister Alexander ‌Dobrindt has said that foreign powers, particularly Russia, could be using ‌left-wing extremist groups as proxies for sabotage, ⁠warning that some ‌of them increasingly ​echo Russian narratives on the Ukraine war.

(Reporting by Friederike Heine and Ludwig ‌Burger)

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