Le autorità francesi indagano sul secondo blackout in due giorni
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/25/french-authorities-investigate-power-blackout-blamed-on-sabotage
di The-Nihilist-Marmot
Le autorità francesi indagano sul secondo blackout in due giorni
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/25/french-authorities-investigate-power-blackout-blamed-on-sabotage
di The-Nihilist-Marmot
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Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for confirmation as to what actually caused Iberia’s mass blackout.
The authorities were quick to dismiss the cyber attack theory back then without addressing the obvious – could there have been old school sabotage? We do not know yet.
Either media is going overdrive with reports on these blackouts, or there’s indeed something going on.
I’d love to see data on the extent of European blackouts on a year-on-year basis.
European officials have said that criminal groups working for foreign powers, notably Russia, were behind a spate of [acts of sabotage across the continent](https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/europe-on-high-alert-after-suspected-moscow-linked-arson-and-sabotage), such as fires in supermarkets and shopping centres, cyber-attacks, beatings and antisemitic graffiti.
my 2c: the perpetrators of the 2 power blackouts are not the same.
But still worrying
I’d speculate that it’s pretty easy for a state actor like Russia or organisation to recruit various individuals and cranks to carry out attacks like this. I mean, just look at how unhinged paranoia about 5G, whipped up by conspiracy theories online, has already driven people to attack telecom infrastructure. It’s not hard to see how some of them could become useful idiots in more coordinated and deliberate acts of sabotage.
They you have highly manipulable extremist groups and early radicalised individuals.
There are lots of useful easily lead types and online groups who could be used — way too many people lost in internet bubbles, culture wars etc of various types.
Very easy to see how you could have crowd sourced attacks.
Russia
Why is this not more obvious? There have been so many instances across Europe. Just two instances from Germany last year that I wrote in a different response below.
Before the German election, they paid people €100 a piece to clog up car exhausts and leave green party flyers at the scene, to make it seem like it was political activists
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/05/german-authorities-suspect-russian-sabotage-in-anti-greens-election-attacks
And their participation in murders right before the election is still being investigated
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dg48g79jvo