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.”
Spätestens morgen muss an jedem der betroffenen 35 000 Haushalte in #Berlin geklingelt werden mit der Frage, ob und welche Hilfe benötigt wird! Ist dafür genügend Personal da? Falls nicht, #Bundeswehr anfordern?? 35 000 Haushalte fünf Tage ohne Strom bedeuten absehbar Hunderte…
Yet the extremist ‘Volcano Group’ behind the attack said in a new statement yesterday that “we will not be swayed by moral outrage that only surfaces when property is at stake.”
It therefore falls to the authorities to intervene against groups that are clearly unwilling to back down. Instead, just as officials ignored leftist threats leading up to this event, critics say they are downplaying the left-wing connection and will continue to look elsewhere.
AfD politician Martin Hess criticised establishment figures for “keeping silent, downplaying it or deliberately looking away,” pointing in particular at people who say without evidence that the attack was aided by a foreign power with the help of the AfD itself.
This security policy blindness must end, because Berlin shows: Left-wing extremism has long since become terrorism. Anyone who does not recognise this has no place in politics. The rule of law must now act consistently and resolutely stop left-terrorist structures as well as their supporters and minimisers in our society.
Obwohl Sicherheitsbehörden von einem linksextremistischen Terrorakt ausgehen, schiebt CDU-Politiker Roderich Kiesewetter die Schuld am Anschlag auf die Stromversorgung in Berlin Putin zu. Rückendeckung erhält er u. a. von Ruprecht Polenz (CDU), Renate Künast (Grüne) und einem… pic.twitter.com/td5EE6kPtI
Perhaps most notably, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now been publicly silent about the outage for more than 100 hours.
The authorities said that power was being restored to tens of thousands of households from just before midday on Wednesday.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
