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This is either a false flag or they are fucking stupid.
If you want to fight climate change, you don't target the people that are willing to support you. You target a private jet, an AI datacenter, a super-yatch... hurting the people who are not in the position to change anything is beyond stupid.
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.
Got it. So they are fucking stupid.
The left has as many idiots as the right. Stupid hippies accomplish nothing.
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
The article led with calling them fucking stupid, although they used the polite euphemism "leftwing militants".
(Note that "rightwing militants" means the same thing)
To be fair, that does seem like exactly what a saboteur would say