Overview
- In a government declaration, Kai Wegner said he should have disclosed his one-hour tennis session on the first day of the outage but stopped short of apologizing.
- He praised the crisis response as effective and announced a security package with video surveillance of key sites, private security patrols, audits of S-Bahn and BVG vulnerabilities, and reserves of generators and fuel.
- He called for tougher action against left-wing extremism and sought expanded digital powers for authorities, including longer IP-address retention and enhanced image-search tools.
- Wegner proposed reforming Berlin’s disaster law to clarify powers for declaring a major-damage situation to speed access to federal assistance.
- Investigations into the suspected left-wing arson that cut power to about 45,000 households and over 2,000 businesses now fall under the Federal Prosecutor, with full supply restored since January 7.