A major IT failure has brought Berlin's ordinary court system to a standstill, forcing authorities to send all judicial staff home by midday on Monday after judges were unable to log into servers operated by the city's IT service provider, ITDZ. The German Association of Judges described the situation as a temporary halt to the administration of justice.
The outage began at 6:30 a.m. and affects all district courts, the Moabit criminal court, both regional courts, and the appellate court. The cause has been identified as a licensing issue with interface software, according to reports.
The disruption follows hours-long outages that already struck the system on Friday, signaling an unresolved vulnerability in the capital's judicial infrastructure. Court operations remain suspended as of Monday afternoon.