Anonymous: power outage in Berlin is a Russian false operation

Early on Saturday, several cables on a bridge close to a gas-fired power plant in south-west Berlin were found burning, the BBC reported. Fire crews extinguished the blaze, but electricity was knocked out across a wide area.

Roughly 45,000 households and about 2,200 businesses lost power, according to officials. Schools preparing to reopen after the Christmas break were among the facilities affected.

The city’s mayor condemned the attack, accusing “suspected left-wing extremists” of knowingly putting lives at risk, particularly patients in hospitals. A far-left activist group calling itself the Vulkangruppe said it carried out the attack, according to a statement posted on social media.

The group said the fossil fuel economy, rather than cutting electricity, was its intended target.

Anonymous: Claim of responsibility for the power outage in Berlin is a Russian false flag operation© Shutterstock.com

Police told AFP they considered the claim “plausible” while investigations continue.

However, Anonymous Germany now claims that at least the admission is a Russian false flag operation.

In a post on X, the group cites a linguistic expert for saying that the admission was not originally written in German.

In another post, Anonymous Germany posted that “Anyone who believes that a far-left Vulkangruppe was at work also believes that Hitler was a communist”.

Anonymous: Claim of responsibility for the power outage in Berlin is a Russian false flag operation