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The fire that broke out on a bridge across the Teltow canal in the south-west of the capital early on Saturday could deprive up to 35,000 homes and 1,900 businesses of electricity – and in many cases heat – until 8 January, the grid company Stromnetz Berlin said.

As state security authorities opened an investigation into the cause of the blaze near the Lichterfelde heat and power station that damaged several high-voltage cables, the Vulkangruppe (Volcano Group) said.

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The area affected by the power cut includes many elderly care homes and hospitals as well as high-rise buildings with residents who are reliant on elevators that are now out of order. Berlin received moderate snowfall at the weekend and night-time temperatures plunged well below freezing.

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A previous arson attack attributed to the far left in September knocked out electricity for 60 hours in the south-east of the city in what was reportedly Berlin’s longest power cut since the second world war.

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[–] Limerance@piefed.social 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Leftist groups have made several similar arson attacks on infrastructure over the years.

Last year https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/tesla-hasser-anschlag-bahngleis

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article68c2f71cb57f8e2dfedfce82/stromausfall-in-berlin-nach-dem-mysterioesen-anschlag-suchen-die-ermittler-parallelen-zu-anderen-sabotageakten.html

A couple of years ago https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/polizeibericht/article210957193/S-Bahnhof-Treptower-Park-Brand-an-Kabelschacht.html

It’s always the same modus operandi. They find essential cables, break in, then burn it down. It interrupts trains, public transport, phone networks, electricity, and such.

Then a long statement is published with lots of words about stopping capitalism, military production, climate change, etc.

The ones suffering are always the weakest.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Got it. So they are fucking stupid.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

The left has as many idiots as the right. Stupid hippies accomplish nothing.

[–] Limerance@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Exactly. Berlin has a large ecosystem of left wingers of many different shades, including pretty ideologically deranged ones.

Here’s their wall of text they published with reasons for this attack.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/stromterror-in-berlin-das-bekennerschreiben-im-wortlaut-li.10012514

[–] duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The article led with calling them fucking stupid, although they used the polite euphemism "leftwing militants".

(Note that "rightwing militants" means the same thing)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

To be fair, that does seem like exactly what a saboteur would say