Overview
- Interior Ministry spokesperson Sonja Kok said there is no information indicating a Russian role in the January 3 arson that cut power in southwest Berlin.
- Federal prosecutors have taken over the Berlin investigation, which Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has described as an act of left‑wing terrorism.
- Stromnetz Berlin reported outages were reduced to about 19,900 households and 850 businesses by the morning of January 7 as restoration continued.
- Prosecutors in Wuppertal confirmed an attempted arson on a substation in Erkrath using pyrotechnics, and investigators said the device could have caused a large blackout.
- A group calling itself Vulkan claimed the Berlin attack and another named Kommando Angry Birds claimed the Erkrath attempt, and Berlin’s mayor faces resignation calls after admitting he played tennis during the blackout.