Editing Sabotage (section)

== As crime ==
Some criminals have engaged in acts of sabotage for reasons of [[extortion]]. For example, [[Klaus-Peter Sabotta]] sabotaged German railway lines in the late 1990s in an attempt to extort [[Deutsche Mark|DM]]10 million from the German railway operator [[Deutsche Bahn]]. He is now serving a sentence of [[life imprisonment]]. In 1989, ex-[[Scotland Yard]] detective [[Rodney Whitchelo]] was sentenced to 17 years in prison for spiking Heinz baby food products in supermarkets, in an extortion attempt on the food manufacturer.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/food-scare-scandals-1100385.html|title=Food Scare Scandals|newspaper=The Independent|date=1999-06-16}}</ref>

On October 8, 2022, the [[GSM-R]] radio communication system of the Deutsche Bahn was [[October 2022 German railway attack|sabotaged]] by the cutting of two cables of crucial importance. In the aftermath, the railway traffic in Northern Germany was completely shut down for several hours.<ref>[https://www.ft.com/content/8d897c26-e9cc-4a16-82da-4ef393e583c3 ''German police open probe into sabotage of rail system''], Financial Times, Guy Chazan, October 2022</ref> German criminal police took over the investigation.<ref> [https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/no-sign-that-foreign-state-was-behind-german-rail-sabotage-police-2022-10-09/ ''No sign that foreign state was behind German rail sabotage, police say''], Reuters, October 9, 2022</ref>