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Germany: Far-left extremists claim responsibility for Berlin’s biggest blackout since the Cold War
Remix News Europe ^ | Sept 12 2025 | Remix News Staff

Posted on 09/15/2025 4:02:05 AM PDT by texas booster

Far left extremists are claiming responsibility for a major attack on a power supply hub providing power to southeast Berlin, which led to a blackout that left 50,000 people without power, the biggest blackout in Berlin since the Cold War.

The damage has been so severe that authorities are reporting it may take until 2026 to fully make repairs, according to Tagesspiegel.

A letter of responsibility was published on Indymedia, a website where many leftist groups publish such letters following attacks.

Berlin’s interior senator, Iris Spranger (SPD), said the letter was authentic. In fact, the letter has many similarities to another letter published in February following a similar arson attack near the Tesla car factory in Grünheide near Berlin, which also led to a major loss of power in Berlin.

“We assume the group of perpetrators is from the left-wing extremist spectrum,” said the Interior Senator. “So that means: not from abroad, but from within the country.“

German media and authorities are indicating that the perpetrators conducted the attacks with a high degree of professionalism.

(Excerpt) Read more at rmx.news ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: poweroutage; predictablelefties; terroristleft
The attack was conducted in the Johannisthal district and involved an arson attack on two electricity pylons on Tuesday morning. It resulted in the longest power outage in 25 years, leaving up to 50,000 residents without power, with many thousands without power for over 60 hours.

The power outage has proven extremely difficult to repair.

Spranger implied that the attacks, which cut power to thousands of homes, led to deaths; however, it is unclear what she is referring to. She said the perpetrators accepted the deaths of people as “collateral damage”

“No one should accept the death of people. And we all have to face it together,” she said.

1 posted on 09/15/2025 4:02:05 AM PDT by texas booster
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To: texas booster
“No one should accept the death of people. And we all have to face it together,” she said.

Except the country's ruling elite.

They never face hardship.

2 posted on 09/15/2025 4:02:50 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

And in Germany, if your political party is not “Far Left” then it is necessarily seen as “Far Right Extremism” and it gets outlawed.


3 posted on 09/15/2025 4:08:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: texas booster

Let me guess.....the German Establishment will blame the AfD even though leftists admit they did it.


4 posted on 09/15/2025 4:10:09 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: texas booster
from within the country

aka domestic enemies.

5 posted on 09/15/2025 4:18:52 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: FLT-bird; All

Sure. And I am truly sorry that the Lazis, as I call them (but they call us N.zis indiscriminately, so I think that’s a fair deal) over here are, alas, every bit as nutty as their counterparts in the USA and elsewhere😞

I am truly sorry that we Germans are not the only ones to have this problem.

May we overcome. So help us God.🇺🇸🇩🇪


6 posted on 09/15/2025 4:23:15 AM PDT by Menes (May Charlie Kirk‘s memory be a blessing. Amen.)
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To: texas booster

Their timing is in coordination with the Russian military build up along the Polish border. These communist sleeper cells and the millions of Muslim invaders will join the Russian invasion of Eastern Europe once the order is given.

We live in interesting times.


7 posted on 09/15/2025 4:58:02 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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Zero factual evidence that lefty-group did the action...other than a claim on some site. Police have almost nothing put a lead on.

If you asked....could be any one of a thousand-odd parties (to include Ukraine, Russia).

One thing that seems obvious...they knew this power site was a problem with no back-up situation. Almost 60 hours of power-loss? I’d be looking at disgruntled power company employees.


8 posted on 09/15/2025 5:31:19 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Uncle Lonny

Russia, China, North Korea. All totalitarian regimes (despite the end of the USSR Russia still is, just looks a little different).

Much of what we are dealing with now is the result of Western ‘progressivism’ and feckless politicians.


9 posted on 09/15/2025 5:35:38 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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It will take until 2026 to replace two pylons???


10 posted on 09/15/2025 7:50:16 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: texas booster

Terrorists


11 posted on 09/15/2025 8:00:43 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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That’s what I thought.

After one of the Houston hurricanes the high voltage pylons took a couple of months to replace.

It’s only a few months of the German winter.


12 posted on 09/15/2025 9:03:33 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

“Far left!” The drinking game where everyone stays sober.


13 posted on 09/15/2025 9:56:31 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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Unfortunately, this sort of crap is going to lead to a “surveillance society” like South Korea, except in the future, expect a great deal of it may be with drones.


14 posted on 09/15/2025 11:25:50 AM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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It will take until 2026 to replace two pylons???

Well, EU and German regulations will have to be observed...

15 posted on 09/16/2025 8:53:28 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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