Conspiracy theorists who see a connection between the launch of new generation networks and the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continue to set fire to 5G cell towers in the UK. More than 50 towers have already suffered from this, including at the same time 3G and 4G towers.
One arson even forced the evacuation of the residents of several houses, while another caused damage to the tower providing communication coverage for an emergency hospital for patients with coronavirus.
Operator EE told Business Insider that there were 22 attempts to set fire to communication towers over the four days of the Easter holidays. Although not all attacks were successful, all objects received some damage. According to the operator, only a part of them belongs to the 5G infrastructure.
On Tuesday this week, Vodafone CEO Nick Jeffrey posted on LinkedIn that 20 of the company's towers had been vandalised. One was providing coverage for the newly built temporary NHS Hospital Nightingale, designed to house coronavirus patients. And a few days earlier, on Sunday, BT (British Telecom) CEO Philip Jansen wrote in an article for the Mail newspaper that 11 towers of the operator were set on fire and 39 of its employees were attacked.
The conspiracy theory, which started gaining support in the UK this January during the coronavirus outbreak, is based on the idea that 5G is either accelerating the spread of the coronavirus, or that the coronavirus itself is a myth made up to cover up the physical damage from the rollout of 5G networks.
Source: 3dnews.ru