Overview
- Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner dismissed Tagesspiegel’s account of his actions after January’s cable‑bridge attack as baseless and said he is weighing legal steps, even as media cite Senatskanzlei records released by court order.
- Documents cited by multiple outlets indicate Wegner did not have the federal contacts he earlier suggested before a midday tennis break; the blackout hit about 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses, with the Vulkangruppe claiming responsibility.
- With voting on 22 March, SPD incumbent Alexander Schweitzer and CDU challenger Gordon Schnieder clashed in a RHEINPFALZ debate, and a new INSA poll for Bild shows the CDU at 28% and the SPD at 27% in a neck‑and‑neck contest.
- The DFB sports court rejected FC Bayern’s appeal over Luis Díaz’s yellow‑red card, confirming his suspension for the Union Berlin match, and Union executive Horst Heldt warned Bayern’s public referee criticism could influence officiating scrutiny.
- Munich police briefly closed the Friedenheimer Brücke over a suspicious item, deployed LKA bomb technicians, issued an all‑clear around 9 a.m., and continued investigations, while local votes confirmed mayoral wins in Cornberg and Wildeck and Frankfurt’s council expanded to 17 lists after a court overturned an electoral reform.