US EditionGerman Police Raid Multiple Sites in Investigation of 2025 Berlin Power Outage
Police raided 19 sites linked to hard-left groups investigating a September 2025 arson that cut power to 50,000 homes and 2,000 businesses, causing up to €70 million in damage.
- On Tuesday, about 500 police officers raided 19 sites across Germany, targeting left-wing suspects in connection with sabotage of Berlin's electrical network; operations spanned Berlin, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Brandenburg.
- Investigations stem from a September 9, 2025, arson attack on electricity poles at the Adlershof Technology Park, which triggered a large-scale power outage in Eastern Berlin affecting 50,000 households and 2,000 companies.
- Damage to companies is estimated between 30 million and 70 million euros, while police secured potential evidence including laptops and documents from sites such as a well-known "anarchist library" in Berlin.
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German police have carried out raids in Berlin and three other states in the investigation into the large-scale power outage in September of last year. The Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office suspects four people of causing the power outage. The four suspects, now aged 28, 31, 35, and 36, allegedly set fire to two electricity poles on September 9. As a result, 50,000 households in Berlin were left without power. It is unclear whether the suspects …
Six Months On, Berlin Police Target Left-Wing Extremists Over Blackout
More than six months after an arson attack that caused a large-scale blackout in Berlin, police carried out a coordinated raid operation early on Tuesday, March 24. The September 2025 outage affected almost 50,000 households and thousands of businesses. A claim of responsibility published on the left-wing extremist platform Indymedia by a group calling itself “Some Anarchists” said the attack aimed to expose what it described as the “unspeakable…
500 officials, raids in left-wing projects, hardly well-founded search decisions: what is founded as an investigation into the blackout, seems to be a political attack on the left-wing scene for those affected.
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der Standard DEIn September, suspected left-wing extremists had committed an arson attack on a power pole. Rooms were searched in over a dozen locations in Berlin alone.
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