Overview
- A nighttime arson on September 9, 2025 heavily damaged high-voltage cables serving the Adlershof technology park and left about 50,000 households and roughly 2,000 businesses without power.
- Investigators carried out a large March raid involving about 500 police officers who searched 17 locations and seized mobile phones and other electronic devices now central to the probe.
- Prosecutors have identified four suspects, two men and two women aged 28 to 36, who are being investigated for verfassungsfeindliche Sabotage, a charge used for attacks on state-protected infrastructure.
- The defendants have formally objected to the seizure and forensic analysis of their devices and a court ruling is pending that could require the items to be returned and bar their use as evidence.
- Authorities are also probing links to a January cable-bridge arson in southwest Berlin and say any exclusion of digital evidence could hinder efforts to establish connections and press charges.