“Today there is sabotage at Tesla,” Vulkangruppe said in a statement. The organization said it was a protest against the American company. From the beginning of the construction of the gigafactory, as the plants in Gruenheide are called in Germany, the Volcano Group has been opposing the investment by writing about the company owned by Elon Musk that it is neither green, ecological nor pro-social.
Attack on the Tesla factory near Berlin
On Tuesday morning, a transformer substation and a power mast were set on fire. This deprived the production halls of the Tesla factory and a large area around it, including parts of Berlin, without power.
Tesla Gigafactory in Germany. Google Maps
There was no electricity for several hours, and employees were evacuated from the factory. Power was later restored, but not everywhere. “With the exception of a large industrial facility, a production plant and a logistics center,” said the German energy company E.ON, quoted by From the beginning of the fire-fighting operation, the police said they suspected the fire was intentionally set. Michael Stuebgen, Minister of the Interior of Brandenburg, said earlier that if the police’s suspicions are confirmed, we will be dealing with “a perfidious attack on energy infrastructure.” Vulkangruppe has also committed other arson attacks in the German capital itself.
Opposition to the expansion of the factory and the cutting down of the forest
Protests by environmentalists and the local community have been going on around the Tesla factory for weeks. Residents of the Gruenheide commune voted against the expansion of the plant because it would involve cutting down the surrounding forests. Activists from the “Robinwood” and “Stop Tesla” organizations even built a treetop town around the factory. Let us recall that . As many as 70 percent voted. eligible residents of Gruenheide, and two-thirds of voters were against the expansion of the Tesla factory. 170 hectares are needed for the enlarged plants and additional warehouses, and most of this area is forest. Already in the first stage of expansion of the Tesla factory, hundreds of hectares of trees disappeared. “The electric, or supposedly ecological, car is destroying our nature,” residents warned at the time.
Source: Gazeta
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