Germany: Leftwing militants claim responsibility for arson attack on Berlin power grid

They are fucking stupid. These are the kind of left wing nutjobs, that want the USSR to return under Putin. This is not the first time and it won't be the last, it's also effectively Russian sabotage

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.

Berlin has some very wealthy districts, and the group targeted these specifically.

OP's summary of the article leaves out a few important aspects imho. Please refer to @myrmidex@belgae.social's comment.

This is the country that shut down all of its nuclear reactors in a knee jerk.

And it should be stressed that it is not at all clear who is behind said group - we basically know about this group what they have told us. That's it

Could also be a typo or autocorrect.

The same group has a history of attacking the German railway system. So I am just going to call bs on them caring about the enviroment. Honestly this smells like a Russian operation to make the German left look like cunts. We actually know that they paid people to destroy combustion engine cars and leave paphlemts calling the German Green Party resposnible for it.

I know they are anarchists, but it is probably imporant to say, that the power plant is owned by the city state of Berlin.

Might as well include this

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.

Further:

In the message, which included details about the fire, Vulkangruppe said that datacentres used for AI were exacerbating the problem of climate-damaging energy consumption while creating dangers to society.

“We are contributing to our own surveillance and it is comprehensive. The tech corporations are in the hands of men with power which we give them,” the group said. “One day we will simply sit before bright screens or dead machines while dying ourselves of thirst and hunger.”

The group said it wished to apologise to the less well-off who had been affected by the power cut, but said its sympathy was limited “for the many villa owners” now in the dark.

BTW:

In March 2024, Vulkangruppe claimed an arson attack against a pylon at the Tesla gigafactory outside Berlin that cut off electricity to the plant and temporarily halted production.

@myrmidex@belgae.social

Not to condone these actions but strange that this most poignant part is left out of OP’s summary.

And? What's strange here?

Yup, your government does that for you already by letting AI companies control the grid.

At least it's controlled and state funded ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There are people here trying to justify this? I can't find a single comment that is