In the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, a reportedly "leftist" radical network, "Volcano Group" (Vulkangruppe), committed anarson attackagainst the power grid in Berlin, Germany, causing an electricity blackout thatleft45,000 households and 2,000 businesses – approximately 100,000 people – without heat and light during freezing winter temperatures forup to five days. It wasreportedlythe longest blackout in Germany since World War II.
The radicals in Volcano Group claimed responsibility for the attack. In astatement, they said that the network had aimed to "cut the juice to the ruling class" and claimed that the attack was about action to protect the climate from fossil fuels, artificial intelligence and a "greed for energy."
Among those "ruling class" people whosufferedthe consequences of this terrorist attackwerefour hospitals, 74 care homes, and 20 schools. It has been more than a month since the attack, yet the authorities have arrested no one, seem bewildered, and are apparently so desperate that they have finallyoffereda million-euro reward to anyone with information that leads to the arrest of the attackers.
Volcano Group, far from being new, has, since 2011, perpetrated several other terrorist attacks "on critical points of public infrastructure,"accordingto Germany's domestic intelligence service (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, or BfV).
"In Berlin and Brandenburg, arson attacks have been committed at irregular intervals on... public infrastructure since 2011. After the crimes, anonymous authors who describe themselves as 'Volcano groups' publish letters of responsibility on relevant internet platforms. The attacks often have a noticeable impact on the population. For example, there have already been several power and telecommunications failures as well as disruptions to public transport. It can be assumed that there is a network behind the 'Volcano groups'... Ideologically, [they] can be assigned to the violence-oriented anarchist spectrum."
Despite these attacks occurring in Germany at intervals for more than a decade, including one against theTesla factoryin Brandenburg, curiously, no one has ever been arrested. It seems almost unbelievable that the German state, which intenselysurveilscitizens' every word on the internet, does not have the faintest clue who might be behind these terrorist attacks.
These are the same authorities, after all, whosendlaw enforcement to raid the homes of ordinary citizens forposting satirical commentsabout leading politicians, and for supposedly "inciting hatred." Approximately every six months, most recently on June 25, 2025, German police, under the coordination of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), carried out its "12th Day of Action to Combat Criminal Hate Postings". On this exalted occasion, itcarried outa total of 46 searches, 66 interrogations, and 26 other measures nationwide, targeting suspected authors of "online hate speech and incitement."
Authorities, however, are unable to find or arrest a single perpetrator from the Volcano Group, which conductsactualterrorism?
In an interview for broadcaster ZDF, German Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindtsaid:
"We see very clearly that attempts are being made here to carry out attacks against infrastructure, against our economy, against the population, against society, which are ultimately intended to massively harm people and could even cost them their lives."
Source: Gatestone Institute :: Articles
