MADRID: Spain has arrange a fee to analyze the causes of a sweeping blackout that paralysed the Iberian Peninsula, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stated on Tuesday (Apr 29).
The announcement got here because the nation’s prime felony courtroom introduced a probe into doable “sabotage” of important infrastructure.
Sanchez refused to rule out potential explanations and defended his authorities’s deliberate nuclear phase-out.
“All the required measures might be taken to make sure that this doesn’t occur once more,” he informed a press convention a day after Spain and Portugal had been plunged into darkness, chopping cellphone and web entry and stranding trains.
In its separate announcement, the highest felony courtroom, the Audiencia Nacional, stated it was investigating whether or not the blackout was “an act of laptop sabotage on important infrastructure” that could possibly be categorized as “a terrorism offence”.
Its announcement got here after Spanish grid operator Crimson Electrica dominated out a cyberattack as the reason for the disaster.
