Environmental activists have vandalized a Cybertruck in one in every of Tesla’s shops in Germany, coming as the most recent assault on the corporate’s distinctive electrical pickups.
Footage of the incident circulated on X on Saturday, exhibiting a number of of the activists sporting orange vests and throwing orange paint on a Cybertruck at Tesla’s Hamburg, Germany retailer. The footage additionally exhibits two of the people holding up a painted signal that reads “Gepanzert in die katastrophe,” which interprets to “armored within the disaster.”
Letzte Era übergießt einen Cybertruck von Tesla mit Farbe. Damit greifen sie einen der wenigen ausländischen Investoren an, die bereits sind, die deutsche Energiewende voranzutreiben. pic.twitter.com/vLFqqRr4UB
— Junge Freiheit (@Junge_Freiheit) July 13, 2024
The information additionally elicited a response from Elon Musk, who affirmed one other consumer’s take later within the day on Saturday:
Completely
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2024
The incident is the most recent in a string of assaults on each Tesla’s Cybertrucks and its Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany.
Final month, a number of Tesla Cybertrucks at a retailer in Fort Lauderdale, California, have been spray painted with the phrases “f*ck Elon,” although they have been later cleaned off. Throughout Tesla’s supply occasion for the Cybertruck in November, the corporate acquired threats of a “mass casualty occasion,” and the person behind the threats was later taken into custody.
Extra just lately, protestors have launched a number of rounds of assaults at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, with some activists in March even beginning a hearth at an influence substation close to the Grünheide facility, inflicting manufacturing to cease for a couple of days. Protestors had additionally been constructing treehouses and occupying close by forests, to be able to stop future expansions to the manufacturing unit.
In Could, round 1,000 protestors from the Dirsupt Alliance group tried to storm Giga Berlin, leading to 23 arrests, 76 felony complaints, and 27 injured cops.
“One thing very unusual is occurring since Tesla was the *solely* automotive firm to be attacked,” wrote Musk in a follow-up publish on X.
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