At least 30,000 homes remain in Berlin after the anarchist group Vulkan claimed responsibility for the attack on the Lichterfelde power plant this Saturday. The mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, has called the attack “terrorism.” “It was a left-wing extremist group that, once again, attacked our infrastructure, endangering people’s lives. […] We must catch these perpetrators now; “This is not a joke, it is a terrorist attack,” the politician declared in words.
As reported by Stromnetz Berlin, the company responsible for the electricity network in the German capital, it will possibly last until next Thursday, although homes and businesses may recover power little by little. If at this time it is estimated that 30,000 homes are without access to electricityJust after the moment of the attack, 50,000 families were affected.
The attack has been claimed by a group calling itself Volkan and that last August he had already declared responsibility for burning cables on the railway network in western Germany. Another anarchist group also claimed responsibility in September for a fire against electricity towers in the southwest of Berlin, which also left thousands of users without electricity throughout the day.
The British newspaper The Guardian in which the Volkan group is blamed for the attack. As they defend in the text, of 2,500 words, the objective of what they call an “action of public interest” and an “act of self-defense and international solidarity with all those who protect life and earth” was to “cut off the power of the ruling class”.
“We contribute to our own surveillance, and it is exhaustive. Tech corporations are in the hands of men with the power we give them. Someday we will just sit in front of glowing screens or dead machines, dying of thirst and hunger“, declared the group as reported by The Guardian.
After the attack, in Germany the debate about the little existing security in critical infrastructures. This is not the first attack that causes a blackout in recent months, as has already been mentioned, and according to experts, extensive technical training is not required to cause similar damage.
