In Sweden, police are investigating more than 30 cases of sabotage on telecommunications towers of the state-owned company Teracom. The incidents include cutting cables and damaging important equipment, but nothing was stolen.
According to the Swedish public broadcaster SVT, the sabotage is systemic and occurred on the east coast of Sweden, near the European highway E22. The police assume that the same person or group is behind most of the attacks.
Roger Gustafsson, head of security at the Swedish Postal and Telecommunications Agency (PTS), noted that the messages came from a geographically limited area. Stefan Steinick of Teracom suggested that some of the incidents may be related to intelligence gathering and sabotage.
Teracom has reported a significant increase in the number of tower damage incidents recently. The police and the prosecutor's office have not commented on possible motives.
Earlier, damage to a telecommunications submarine cable in the Swedish economic zone was discovered in the Baltic Sea[3]. Damage to the Latvian radio cable and an accident on the power transmission line between Finland and Estonia were also reported.
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