In fresh weeks, Slovenia has experienced a series of incidents in which unknown perpetrators intentionally harm railway infrastructure or block tracks. There have already been derailments and situations threatening to collide trains, including in Vintgar and Bled Jezero, where workers have detected damaged crossovers or signal.
The most fresh event occurred on Monday morning on the Celje–Velenje route. The passenger train raided the scattered cones, garden furniture and bike, then stopped at the station of the Żalec. No one's been injured, but the depot's out of traffic, and the passengers are carrying replacement communications. Police have launched an investigation into the deliberate threat to transport security.
Slovenian Railways specify the event as sabotage. manager Miha Butara stressed that this was not an accident or negligence, but a planned effort to do harm. He besides recalled a akin incidental of August 19 in Novo Mesto, where the train hit deliberately arranged primers. Railway and service authorities call for police to study any suspicious behaviour close the tracks.
