BERLIN: Berlin’s mayor said on Monday the German capital’s core infrastructure needed better protection two days after an arson attack on a power station left tens of thousands of people without power. The far-left Volcano activist group claimed responsibility for the attack which also shut down mobile phone connections, cut heating during freezing weather, stopped trains and forced hospitals to switch to back-up generators. “Left-wing terrorism is back in Germany with increasing intensity,” Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the Bild newspaper in an interview.

Damage to cables means tens of thousands will be without electricity until Thursday amid freezing temperatures

Protest over climate crisis and AI has cut power to tens of thousands of homes which may take days to fully restore

Police were investigating an online claim of responsibility from a left-wing extremist group after an arson attack damaged power cables on Saturday morning.

The far-left Vulkan Gruppe says in a statement that targeting the fossil fuel economy, not cutting power, was the goal.

A far-left activist group sent police a letter taking credit for setting fire to part of a power plant near Berlin, leaving nearly 50,000 customers in the dark, as a protest…

A suspected arson attack in southwest Berlin has prompted a major power outage, with tens of thousands of households affected.

BERLIN: Berlin’s mayor said on Monday the German capital’s core infrastructure needed better protection two days after an arson attack on a power station left tens of thousands…

Nach dem massiven Stromausfall in Berlin spricht der Regierende Bürgermeister Kai Wegner von einem professionell geplanten linksextremistischen Terroranschlag. Er kündigt…

Arson attack that left parts of German capital in darkness for days stirs outrage over infrastructure insecurity

The power cut was caused by a suspected arson attack and came as temperatures dipped below freezing.