Berlin Plunges Into Darkness After Climate Extremists Set Fire to Power Lines
“Tens of thousands of Berliners have been without electricity for four days.”
A left-wing arson attack on Berlin’s energy infrastructure plunged tens of thousands of households into darkness. “Tens of thousands of Berliners have been without electricity for four days,” German weekly Der Spiegel reports on Tuesday.
The power outage hit the city on Saturday after a climate activist group set fire to high-voltage power lines. “On the morning of January 3, a fire broke out on a cable bridge over the Teltow Canal, destroying vital utility lines,” the magazine added. “The fire caused a power outage in southwest Berlin, affecting more than 45,000 households at its peak. The blackout also impacted care facilities for the elderly and sick.”
🚨🇩🇪 CATASTROPHE IN BERLIN – CHANCELLOR SILENT‼️
The Left’s TERR0R ATTACK on Berlin caused an EMERGENCY – but the government won’t speak up!
The power outage crashed the pumping system of lakeside houses. The homes reek of sewage. It is ICE COLD.
Why are there NO ARRESTS? pic.twitter.com/OFK9Axh741
— Naomi Seibt (@NaomiSeibt) January 6, 2026
The attack comes as Germany faces an especially cold winter. “Germany has been gripped by a spell of wintry weather,” the German news website The Local noted on Monday. “As the cold snap shows no sign of abating soon, residents should prepare for several more days of challenging conditions.”
Berlin authorities dispatched 450 additional police officers as German newspaper Bild reported burglar alarms going off across the capital.
JUST IN – Far-left extremists claim responsibility for the arson terror attack resulting in a partial power outage in Berlin, Germany. pic.twitter.com/vnEXBGeFiX
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 4, 2026
The leftist climate group Vulkangruppe is reportedly behind the sabotage. According to the German domestic spying agency, which goes by the acronym BfV, the group “belongs to the violent, anarchist wing of the left-wing extremist scene,” Germany’s ARD broadcaster reported.
NOW – Dystopian scenes as police warn people of power outage in Berlin, Germany in winter after arson attack leaves part of the city in blackout conditions. Power not to be restored for a week. pic.twitter.com/IGXhkmBzXm
— Confidential Post (@TheCPostNews) January 3, 2026
The climate extremist group has “repeatedly carried out arson attacks on critical public infrastructure, mainly in Berlin and Brandenburg, since 2011.” Their “attacks frequently resulted in electricity and telecommunications outages, as well as disruptions to public transportation,” the public broadcaster added.
The German state TV Deutsche Welle reported on Monday:
Thousands of residents in southwest Berlin are still without electricity and heating amid freezing temperatures after a weekend attack on a cable bridge caused a power outage.
Some 14,000 of the some 45,000 households initially affected have had their power restored, but provider Stromnetz Berlin said it might take until Thursday for complete coverage to return.
Some schools and kindergartens in the area remained closed on what is the first school day after the Christmas holidays.
Hospitals used emergency generators to be able to continue operations and have since seen their power restored, but many care homes remain affected.
Aid organizations and the fire brigade have set up shelters for those in need.
Some 2,200 businesses were also hit, of which some 500 are back on the grid.
A left-wing group that calls itself the Vulkangruppe (Volcano Group) said in the letter that the aim of the attack was to target the fossil fuel industry.
It said the attack “resulted in power outages in the more affluent districts of Wannsee, Zehlendorf and Nikolassee.”
🇩🇪 BERLIN: An attack on the Berlin electrical grid happened and big parts of the city are without electricity!
According to the operator Stromnetz Berlin, a large-scale power outage in the southwest of Berlin affects 45,000 households and 2200 businesses in Nikolassee,… pic.twitter.com/yBUmhgLydc
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 3, 2026
The Vulkangruppe, with a track record of similar actions, carried out the attack against the use of fossil fuels, a pamphlet released by the group said.
British newspaper The Guardian published excerpts from the group’s pamphlet.
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 it had deliberately targeted some of the city’s wealthiest districts.
In a 2,500-word pamphlet seen by the Guardian which a police spokesperson called “credible”, the group said it had aimed to “cut the juice to the ruling class”.
It condemned a “greed for energy” produced by high-emission fossil fuels, calling the attack “action in the public interest” and an “act of self-defence and international solidarity with all those who protect the earth and life”.
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.
Germany’s climate change activism, which began with blockading roads and damaging museum pieces, has now moved on to acts of terror. “German federal prosecutors on Tuesday launched an investigation on terrorism charges into an arson attack on high-voltage cables that caused a power blackout,” Euronews confirmed.
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Excellent way to convert all those lefty homeowners into fossil fuel supporters
The people who did this should be charged with terrorism and executed
They should be shot on sight or shot while escaping or whatever… just shot. However if you won’t shoot them put them into a jail without heat or power and let them cope.
Since the left accuses anyone with a job and desire to provide for their family as a Fascist then the solution is obvious.
In April of 1945 those who annoyed the real Fascists were hanged from lamp posts as a message to others.
Although I don’t want them hanged by a mob it would be fitting if they were sprayed with water and left miles from home on foot.
eugyppius points out that the same German national security state that relentlessly harasses pensioners for hate speech (often for calling their politicians mildly rude names such as “professional idiot”), has done nothing about Volcano Group for 14 years, even though their leadership is known to them, and has been quickly released when accidentally arrested,
It’s like being Brian Cole Jr. in a country with no political term limits.
Despite the repeated attacks on infrastructure the leftist terrorist attacks such as this don’t get nearly the prominence in media or anything approaching the response from the establishment to the potential of the AfD increasing their share of political power. When the govt ignores repeated, widespread lefty acts of terrorism choosing to sound alarm bells about the mere potential of AfD, currently the most popular political party, gain I control of govt and seeking to end open borders, cut govt welfare, increase reliable energy (fossil fuels/nuke) create a respectable military force, stop the economic drain and end outsourcing/off shoring to being back good paying domestic jobs… something is badly askew.
after a further and final investigation the german police found no j ews as the suspects,,,this time,,but vowed they will be next time and will be deported asap
Not a ton of sympathy here; if the German security apparatus can’t identify and lock up terrorists who have been operating on their own soil for YEARS, one comes to the inescapable conclusion that they haven’t found them because they’re not looking for them.
Find person that died during that time and tie it to the power outage. Convict these people for murder.
A commenter elsewhere reminds us: “Don’t forget that the german government also sent ALL their emergency generators to Ukraine and did not bother to replace them.”
Charge those people with murder as well.
This is a lie. Only the Far Right are extremist’s and violent. Besides, who cares as Germany has a bunch of windmills and solar panel backup’s, right? Right?
I survived two weeks comfortably enough with no power in sub zero temperatures. Move all freezer contents outside to the porch. Leave basement door open to heat house with basement floor heat from months of summer. Stays above 32 degrees indoors.
After spectacular ice storm brought down trees everywhere.
“Green”/eco-terrorists, leftists and Muslim terrorists/Islamofascists will succeed in destroying Germany, and, myriad other, formerly mighty European powers.
It’s the green/red/green coalition of eco-fanatics, commies and islamo-fascists .Temporary allies.
Exactly. The Green Goons alone don’t have what it takes to pull something like this off.
Five days without power signals professional hit job or total incompetence on the part of the German work crews, perhaps both.
Klaus Schwab, the UN, and the WEF must be very proud of the useful idiots they’ve brainwashed.
Expect no arrests.
Meanwhile we have idiot terrorist kids stupid enough to think they’re saving the planet from melting. Part egotism, but mostly ignorance and gullibility.