The request of German government experts to create war shelters

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, according to a According to a media report, the experts of the German federal government recommend the plan to create shelters for possible military attacks. According to their belief, precise attacks with drones or missiles are at least possible.

According to a report from the “Suddeutsche Zeitung” newspaper, experts from the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Germany’s Federal Real Estate Agency recommend a nationwide shelter plan with home shelters “and structural self-shelter rooms”.

This German newspaper (Saturday edition ) cited a 25-page paper for the upcoming interior ministers’ conference that a military threat to the NATO alliance region appears to be a real possibility. A conflict is possible in which targets in Germany can also be attacked. As well as other critical infrastructure in Germany is conceivable – for example these attacks occur to prevent the movement of NATO forces or to limit the overall ability of the German government to act and spread unrest among the population. Therefore, experts point to federal and state defense scenarios.

According to the report of this German newspaper, of course, experts are not afraid of massive bombing and massive destruction. However, according to them, attacks “with modern and highly accurate weapon technologies such as missiles or drones are possible, which carries the risk of collateral damage.

“Suddeutsche Zeitung” further quoted this article and addressed the conference of interior ministers that the good and mostly solid building structure in Germany offers the best conditions to protect against such damage. Interior rooms, or those below ground level, provide protection “against some anticipated hazard” without any renovation. On a voluntary basis, simple measures can be used to “harden” basement rooms.

In the long term, the report recommends that existing buildings In Germany, to be supplemented with so-called home shelters. This includes more complex protective spaces in residential or commercial buildings, company buildings or public buildings. This article puts the budget needed for the comprehensive expansion of such spaces at 131 billion euros.

This article states that this is only possible as a long-term goal. Is. The report of the expert group is supposed to be the basis for the decision of the interior ministers in the German states. The ministers will meet in Potsdam in mid-June.

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