A few days after the attack on him, it became known that the RWE subsidiary Innogy was to be broken up and parts of the competitor Eon were to be taken over.
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Wuppertal The suspect for the acid attack on top manager Bernhard Günther was extradited to Germany a week after his arrest. The Wuppertal public prosecutor’s office informed the German Press Agency on Thursday upon request. A judge at the Wuppertal district court announced the arrest warrant and sent him to pre-trial detention. The 41-year-old was arrested in Belgium on Tuesday last week.
He is said to be one of the two men who ambushed Günther about 200 meters from his front door in March 2018 and burned it with highly concentrated acid. Günther had been brought to a special clinic with serious injuries and was at times in mortal danger.
More than three and a half years later, the crime could be investigated. The investigators had compared a DNA sample of the 41-year-old with a DNA trace from the crime scene – and achieved a direct hit.
