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Deborah Cole in Berlin

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Leftwing militants claim responsibility for arson attack on berlin power grid - The Untold Story

View from outside the building of a man standing at a window shining his torch from inside a dark room
A man uses a torch in his apartment during the blackout in Steglitz-Zehlendorf, southern Berlin, on Sunday. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters

German leftwing militants protesting over the climate crisis and AI have claimed responsibility for an arson attack that cut power to tens of thousands of households in Berlin.

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.

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