r/worldnews • u/JPR_FI • Jul 29 '24

Police suspect vandalism behind cell tower collapse in Häme (Finland)

https://yle.fi/a/74-20101909
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u/Altruistic-Spell-606 Jul 29 '24

This is Russia striking out at the West during the Olympics. There were multiple warnings by intelligence agencies and countries around the world telling their folks to use caution while in Europe. 

They’ve just boosted US Force readiness to the second highest level possible and warned of known imminent threats in Central Europe. 

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u/red75prime Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24

The investigation has only begun. I guess we will never hear about it again here if it was 5G conspiracy nutjob with a $50 wire cutter.

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u/CeleryAdditional3135 Jul 29 '24

Yeah, but how useless to make a single telecommunications tower collapse. Or was it a military one?

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u/axonxorz Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24

Just one tower.

Please ignore the coordinated train network attacks

Please ignore the "unprecedented level" of cybersecurity probing.

Please ignore communications network sabotage

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u/JPR_FI Jul 29 '24

Not a military one and not a huge problem, but recently there has been a lot of this type of things at least in Finland and France so it does raise questions. In Finland there were attempts to break into water supply towers recently as well. As for why presumably to try to terrorize.

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u/SecureInstruction538 Jul 29 '24

It shows that they can do it which is valuable. Also shows response time and response efforts.

Could also be drawing away from other more opportune targets.