Article  Climate activists knock out power in Berlin for days in cold weather

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So they're no longer just a nuisance like Extinction Rebellion. Now they're putting people's lives at risk. Sure way to win people over to the cause.
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Thousands of Berliners lost power for days after climate activists struck. Here’s what happened
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/07/europ...utage-intl

INTRO:  Amid heavy snow in the German capital and temperatures plummeting to below freezing, nearly 100,000 people were left without power for several days after an alleged left-wing arson attack on Berlin’s power supply on Saturday caused a major blackout.

The activist group Vulkangruppe – or Volcano Group – claimed responsibility for the attack, citing the role that fossil fuels and AI play in accelerating the climate crisis.

Roughly 45,000 homes and more than 2,000 businesses in Berlin’s wealthy southwestern districts were affected by the outage, which lasted more than four days. The outage is believed to be the longest in Berlin’s postwar history.

The attack on Berlin’s power supply occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning, when a fire broke out on a cable duct over the Teltow Canal, which runs through the city’s south. The blaze damaged several high-voltage cables near Berlin’s Lichterfelde power plant.

Authorities put the fire out, but not before power had been cut at around 6 a.m. The outage affected up to 45,000 households and 2,200 business spanning four districts in southern Berlin, including Nikolassee, Zehlendorf, Wannsee and Lichterfelde, according to Stromnetz Berlin, the operator of the city’s electricity network.

The attack left people without power and heating amid nighttime temperatures of –10 degrees celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit), disrupted overground train lines and hit mobile phone connections... (MORE - details)

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