Berlin Outage Latest in Surge of Left-Wing Attacks in Germany
7th January 2026
Attacks by leftist activists are rising in Germany, with the latest targeting Berlin’s power network and leaving tens of thousands without electricity in freezing winter conditions. The muted response from establishment officials has raised concerns that such violence is being systematically downplayed.
In the year up to November 30th, 2025, the federal government recorded 931 left-wing motivated violent crimes—an increase of approximately 45%. This finding, published in Junge Freiheit on Tuesday, was brought about by a parliamentary question submitted by the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland.
The Berlin power outage, which reports say will end after just over four days on January 7th, is already understood to have resulted in several vulnerable citizens dying. One CDU official even accepted on Saturday that the targeted attack could result in “hundreds to thousands of deaths.”