Environmental activists have vandalized a Cybertruck in one in all Tesla’s shops in Germany, coming as the newest 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 reveals two of the people holding up a painted signal that reads “Gepanzert in die katastrophe,” which interprets to “armored within the disaster.”
Letzte Technology 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 person’s take later within the day on Saturday:
Completely
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2024
The incident is the newest 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, had been spray painted with the phrases “f*ck Elon,” although they had been later cleaned off. Throughout Tesla’s supply occasion for the Cybertruck in November, the corporate obtained threats of a “mass casualty occasion,” and the person behind the threats was later taken into custody.
Extra 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 just a few days. Protestors had additionally been constructing treehouses and occupying close by forests, in an effort to forestall future expansions to the manufacturing facility.
In Might, round 1,000 protestors from the Dirsupt Alliance group tried to storm Giga Berlin, leading to 23 arrests, 76 prison 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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