Berlin is experiencing the longest as a result of the arson attack on the Berlin power grid Power failure since the Second World War. Several thousand people are still in dark and cold apartments without electricity or heat or are staying in alternative accommodation. On the fourth day of the blackout in the southwest of the capital, around 25,500 households and 1,200 shops and companies are still without power, according to the operator.
Berlin’s governing mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) and the managing director of the state-owned company Berlin Stromnetz, Bernhard Büllmann, promised those affected that they would be supplied again by Thursday. According to the network operator, the civil engineering work for the two temporary cable connections has been completed, so that the electrical work to establish the connection could now begin. This means that we are “very well on schedule,” said a spokesman for the operator.
A Arson attack on a cable bridge in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district triggered the power outage in the capital. A left-wing extremist group claimed responsibility. As a result of the attack, 45,000 households and 2,200 companies were without power in southwest Berlin on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, the police continue to search for those responsible for the arson attack. After calls for witnesses, information was received in the “mid double-digit range,” said Police Vice President Marco Langner. Eight of them are promising. The police also secured several hundred hours of video material.
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