Overview
- The outage, which began Saturday around 10 p.m., cut power to 1,314 households in Nikolassee and ended by about 11:35 p.m., according to Stromnetz Berlin.
- Police increased patrols in the neighborhood during the blackout to reassure residents and reported no related incidents.
- Stromnetz Berlin said there are no indications of an attack and pointed to a probable fault in a medium‑voltage cable, which carries electricity between substations and local streets and can fail from age, prior digging damage, or moisture.
- A separate interruption in Marienfelde earlier Saturday started just after 4 p.m. and lasted about two hours, with service restored the same day.
- The brief outage revived memories of January’s arson-linked blackout in southwest Berlin that left about 100,000 people affected, where probes later named four suspects for anti-constitutional sabotage but led to no arrests.