盜賊兇猛！俄23米長56噸重鐵路橋失竊，竟未留下蛛絲馬跡…

"Metal thieves" steal 56-tonne, 23-metre rail bridge in Russia

俄羅斯「金屬竊賊」偷走了56噸23米長的鐵路橋

來源：獨立報 翻譯：世界播

The theft of a 56-tonne, 23-metre bridge structure has prompted a criminal investigation in Russia"s Arctic region.

俄羅斯北極地區一座56噸重、23米長的橋樑結構被盜，引發了一場刑事調查。

Aerial footage circulated on Russian social media in late May showed that the two opposing sections of the bridge were intact, but the central span had mysteriously disappeared.

5月底，俄羅斯社交媒體上流傳的航拍視頻顯示，大橋兩邊的部分完好無損，但大橋中央部分卻神秘地消失了。

The heist took place at a long-dismantled bridge over the Umba river, near the abandoned settlement of Oktyabrskaya, in the Arctic region of Murmansk, which borders with Finland.

這起盜竊案發生在烏姆巴河上一座被拆除已久的橋上，附近是與芬蘭接壤的摩爾曼斯克北極地區的奧克亞布拉斯卡婭廢棄定居點。

Residents realised only days after the theft took place. Photos dating 16 May circulating on Russian social network VKontakte showed that the central span of the bridge had fallen into the water. In aerial photos taken just ten days later, there was no trace of the section or of any debris.

盜竊發生幾天後，居民們才意識到。俄羅斯社交網站VKontakte上流傳的5月16日的照片顯示，大橋的中心跨度已經墜入水中。在僅僅10天後拍攝的航拍照片中，沒有發現任何該部分或任何殘骸的蹤跡。

「Natural phenomena could not bring down the bridge,」 wrote the VK page that initially posted the pictures. The page owners noted that a lower bridge nearby had remained intact. 「Even if you bring in an icebreaker, then it』s strange that the lower road bridge nearby wasn』t knocked over.」

最初發布這些照片的VKontakte主頁上寫道：「自然現象無法摧毀這座橋。」發布者注意到附近的一座較低的橋仍然完好無損。「就算是開了一艘破冰船，那奇怪的是，附近較低的公路橋並沒有被撞倒。」

Residents immediately speculated that the bridge had been stolen and submitted a statement to nearby Kirovsk police.

居民們立即猜測這座橋是被偷走的，並向附近的基洛夫斯克警方提交了一份聲明。

Police initially dismissed claims of theft, alleging that the owners might have dismissed the bridge themselves, but later launched a criminal investigation into a possible theft.

警方最初駁回了盜竊指控，聲稱可能是橋的主人自己把橋拆除了，但後來警方還是對可能發生的盜竊行為展開了刑事調查。

They say the perpetrators might have acted to sell scrap metal, but their identity and the way they operated is still unknown.

他們說，作案者可能是在出售廢金屬，但他們的身份和作案方式仍不清楚。

「Most likely, metalworkers pulled the structure down into the water, and there they slowly took it apart into scrap pieces,」 the VK page speculated.

「最有可能的是，金屬工人把這個橋部結構拖進水裡，然後慢慢地把它拆成了碎片。」VKontakte用戶推測。

It noted that it wasn』t the first episode of scrap metal thieves damaging infrastructure in the region, citing attempts to steal transmission towers in the nearby Apatity in summer 2018.

這不是該地區發生的第一起廢金屬竊賊破壞基礎設施的事件，2018年夏天有人試圖盜竊附近阿帕季特的輸電塔。

In 2008, Russian police hunted scrap metal thieves who stole an even larger 200-tonne metal bridge in a night-time raid.

2008年，俄羅斯警方在一次夜間突襲中追捕了一座更大的200噸金屬橋的廢金屬竊賊。

The rail bridge over the Umba river had long been dismissed, with tracks lifted a long time ago. Local media Opentown.ru said that when reporters asked who the bridge belonged to, the Murmansk Railway Division said it was 「better to turn to historians」.

烏姆巴河上的鐵路橋早就被拆除了，鐵軌早已被抬起。當地媒體Opentown.ru表示，當記者問這座橋屬於誰時，摩爾曼斯克鐵路局表示，「最好去問歷史學家」。

Police said in their statement that the bridge belonged to a company operating in the area, and estimated material losses at about 600,000 Russian rubles (￡7.250).

警方在聲明中表示，這座橋屬於在該地區運營的一家公司，估計造成的物質損失約為60萬俄羅斯盧布（合7.250英鎊）。

「Ah, who cares,」 commented the VK page, sardonically. 「This isn"t Germany, and restoring order to the vandalised landscape is not high on the agenda.」

「啊，誰在乎呢，」網友諷刺地評論道，「這不是德國，恢復被破壞地區的秩序並不是當務之急。」

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