Power outage in Berlin: 30,000 Berliners with out energy for the third day | EUROtoday

On the third day of the facility outage in southwest Berlin, round 30,000 individuals are nonetheless fighting the chilly and different main restrictions. Of the preliminary 45,000 households, round 15,000 obtained power once more by Sunday night. The operator Stromnetz Berlin is making an attempt to restore the facility traces that had been destroyed by the presumably left-wing extremist arson assault on Saturday as rapidly as potential. It was introduced that the harm could be fully repaired by Thursday.

“Stop vulnerability”

Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner stated within the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”: “This shows once again that there is no such thing as 100 percent security.” The state stays weak to such assaults. “We have to eliminate this vulnerability,” he emphasised. However, that takes time. Only a small proportion of the facility grid runs above floor. This half must be protected extra successfully – for instance with video surveillance and safety providers.

Wegner labeled the assault as terrorism. The State Criminal Police Office (LKA) and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution had been concerned. Berlin can be involved with the Federal Criminal Police Office and the broader federal degree.

The letter from the alleged perpetrators “Volcano Group” is entitled “Shutting off the power of those in power”. “In the greed for energy, the earth is drained, sucked dry, burned, violated, burned down, raped, destroyed,” it stated. The fuel energy plant in Lichterfelde was “successfully sabotaged”.

The first day of college was canceled for a lot of

For many college students within the affected districts within the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district, faculty was canceled on the primary day after the Christmas holidays. The Senate Department for Education revealed an inventory of colleges that should initially stay closed as a result of energy outage – together with main colleges, secondary colleges and vocational colleges. Emergency care was arrange at different colleges for round 20 affected colleges.

The district, hearth division and different assist organizations have up to now arrange six emergency shelters in sports activities halls and administration buildings. There are additionally quite a few group facilities and church buildings the place you may heat up, wash and get electrical energy.

Many supermarkets have now reopened. The Senate introduced that extra might be linked through emergency energy. The police inform the affected individuals with 30 loudspeaker vehicles and in addition present elevated presence to be able to stop crime. The Bundeswehr is now offering assist with logistics, transport and operation of emergency mills.

The Senate arrange a disaster workforce, headed by the Senate Interior Administration. The work of the affected Senate administrations and districts in addition to cooperation with assist organizations might be coordinated there.

The Berlin tourism company Visit Berlin referred to as on 200 associate resorts to make lodge rooms accessible for affected Berliners. “The hotel rooms can be rented at special rates (from 70 euros per double room including breakfast) until the damage has been completely repaired and the power supply has been restored.”

Giffey: Keep the facility cable route extra secret sooner or later

The Berlin Public Prosecutor General’s Office took over the investigation into the arson assault. She justified this with the “special significance of the individual case”. The public prosecutor’s workplace additionally performed the investigation within the case of the roughly 60-hour energy outage in Treptow-Köpenick in mid-September 2025.

Economics Senator Franziska Giffey (SPD) referred to as for assist from the federal authorities. “I believe that the main thing now must be federal help in the investigation,” she stated on RBB Inforadio. “The question is: Are these just left-wing groups of activists who are ideological or is there more to it?” Giffey additionally demanded that details about the route of vital energy cables be stored extra secret sooner or later. “You can find a lot on the Internet,” she informed Deutschlandfunk. No extra crucial knowledge ought to be revealed.

The Greens need double safety for the facility grid. How may it’s that an assault in a single place may have such critical penalties, requested MP Vasili Franco. “All vulnerable areas must be identified.” Appropriate safety is important for each weak level. The Green MP Gollaleh Ahmadi criticized: “For years, the Senate has equated security almost exclusively with police presence and failed to make our infrastructure more resilient.”