cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/44925200
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The fire that broke out on a bridge across the Teltow canal in the south-west of the capital early on Saturday could deprive up to 35,000 homes and 1,900 businesses of electricity – and in many cases heat – until 8 January, the grid company Stromnetz Berlin said.
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.
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The area affected by the power cut includes many elderly care homes and hospitals as well as high-rise buildings with residents who are reliant on elevators that are now out of order. Berlin received moderate snowfall at the weekend and night-time temperatures plunged well below freezing.
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A previous arson attack attributed to the far left in September knocked out electricity for 60 hours in the south-east of the city in what was reportedly Berlin’s longest power cut since the second world war.
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This is either a false flag or they are fucking stupid.
If you want to fight climate change, you don’t target the people that are willing to support you. You target a private jet, an AI datacenter, a super-yatch… hurting the people who are not in the position to change anything is beyond stupid.
This is the country that shut down all of its nuclear reactors in a knee jerk.
They are fucking stupid. These are the kind of left wing nutjobs, that want the USSR to return under Putin. This is not the first time and it won’t be the last, it’s also effectively Russian sabotage
If it wasn’t a false flag operation, then pretty much the opposite is true. Because the group is anarcho-primitivist. Their goal is certainly not the return of the USSR, but rather a societal return to pre-industrial living and production conditions. Above all, they are also against states and therefore traditionally very opposed to leftwing supporters of the Soviet Union.
Oh wow, so they are arguably even more stupid
It’s even worse than that, many go beyond pre-indurstrial and want to go back to pre-agricultural societies. Hunter and gatherer.
Totally just vibed out that conclusion there eh?
Kind of, I mainly extrapolated from the last similar attacks on our infrastructure
Leftist groups have made several similar arson attacks on infrastructure over the years.
Last year https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/tesla-hasser-anschlag-bahngleis
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article68c2f71cb57f8e2dfedfce82/stromausfall-in-berlin-nach-dem-mysterioesen-anschlag-suchen-die-ermittler-parallelen-zu-anderen-sabotageakten.html
A couple of years ago https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/polizeibericht/article210957193/S-Bahnhof-Treptower-Park-Brand-an-Kabelschacht.html
It’s always the same modus operandi. They find essential cables, break in, then burn it down. It interrupts trains, public transport, phone networks, electricity, and such.
Then a long statement is published with lots of words about stopping capitalism, military production, climate change, etc.
The ones suffering are always the weakest.
To be fair, that does seem like exactly what a saboteur would say
Got it. So they are fucking stupid.
The left has as many idiots as the right. Stupid hippies accomplish nothing.
The article led with calling them fucking stupid, although they used the polite euphemism “leftwing militants”.
(Note that “rightwing militants” means the same thing)
Exactly. Berlin has a large ecosystem of left wingers of many different shades, including pretty ideologically deranged ones.
Here’s their wall of text they published with reasons for this attack.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/stromterror-in-berlin-das-bekennerschreiben-im-wortlaut-li.10012514
Berlin has some very wealthy districts, and the group targeted these specifically.
OP’s summary of the article leaves out a few important aspects imho. Please refer to @myrmidex@belgae.social’s comment.