Power outage in Berlin

Power back in Berlin – longest outage since World War II

Power has been fully restored in southwest Berlin after a five-day power outage, Reuters reports. It is the longest power outage in the German capital since World War II.

More than 45,000 households and 2,000 businesses were left without power on Saturday after an arson attack on a power plant in southwest Berlin. The left-wing group “Vulkangruppe” has claimed responsibility for the attack and the incident is being investigated by federal prosecutors.

The group claims that they did not want to cause problems for people, but states that they targeted “non-climate-friendly companies,” writes Deutsche Welle.

Left-wing group behind outages dismisses Russian links

There are no links to Russia in the German left-wing group that caused the long-term power outage in Berlin. This is claimed in a letter that is said to have been written by the group in question, “Vulkangruppe.”

The activists were behind an arson attack near a power plant that supplies southwest Berlin with electricity. 35,000 households and hundreds of businesses have been without power since Saturday. The “Vulkangruppe” wrote in a letter that the attack was a protest against the fossil fuel industry.

In Germany, there has been speculation that a foreign power, possibly Russia, may have been behind the attack.

“These speculations are just an attempt to mask their own powerlessness,” says a letter published on a left-wing platform on Tuesday.

The German intelligence service also believes that domestic actors are behind the attack, sources told Die Welt.