#power-blackout

#power-blackout

Wegner, from the conservative Christian Democratic Union party of the chancellor, Friedrich Merz, had told reporters on Sunday that he had been working round the clock to mitigate the impact of the blackout and get the power back on. I was neither bored nor putting my feet up, but was on the phone all day trying to coordinate and get as much information as possible, he said,and had literally locked myself in my office at home.

The top German prosecutors' office, the "Bundesanwaltschaft," has taken over the probe into an arson attack on the power supply in Berlin on Saturday that has caused the longest blackout in Germany's postwar history. The prosecutors are investigating the incident as involving unconstitutional sabotage, membership in a terrorist group, arson and the disruption of public facilities. The arson attack is believed to have been carried out by left-wing extremists,