Network operator EWR received an alarm message at exactly 3:59 a.m. on Easter Saturday night (April 20). The legs of a 20,000-volt high-voltage pylon in Albig (Rhineland-Palatinate) had been deliberately sawed off before it crashed into the local vineyards. The power failure affected the villages of Bermersheim, parts of Ensheim, Armsheim, Flonheim, Bornheim, Lonsheim and a wind farm in the Wörrstadt district.

However, due to the redundancy of the network, the night-time outage only lasted ten minutes, according to Dominik Nagel, spokesman for network operator EWR. As this was a critical infrastructure attack, the Criminal Police Office, under the supervision of the public prosecutor’s office in Koblenz, was in charge of the investigation. According to their estimates, the material damage amounts to six figures (minimum 100,000 euros).

[Summary of German press (SWR & Allgemeine Zeitung), April 22-23, 2025].

via: sansnom