After the attack on the Tesla factory
Elon Musk slams “extremely stupid” eco-terrorists
March 5, 2024, 4:02 p.m
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An attack on the power supply paralyzes the Tesla factory in Grünheide. In a letter of responsibility, the left-wing extremist “Vulkangruppe” explains its motives. CEO Musk apparently finds the reasoning so stupid that he even formulates his opinion on it in German.
Tesla boss Elon Musk reacted to the alleged attack in view of the production stop at his factory in Grünheide due to a power outage. “They are either the stupidest eco-terrorists in the world or they are puppets of those who don’t have good environmental goals,” wrote Musk in English on the portal X. “Stopping the production of electric vehicles instead of fossil fuel vehicles is extremely stupid.” The Tesla boss wrote the words “extremely stupid” in German.
A power outage caused by a burning electricity pylon in eastern Brandenburg brought the only European Tesla factory in Grünheide near Berlin to a standstill early in the morning. The investigators assume arson and are also checking a letter of confession. The “Vulkan Group”, classified as left-wing extremist, had previously claimed responsibility for an attack on the power supply in an email. She accuses Tesla of “extreme conditions of exploitation”.
The “Tagesspiegel” quoted from the confession letter that the police are currently checking: “Tesla eats earth, resources, people, labor and spits out SUVs, killing machines and monster trucks. Our gift for March 8th is to shut down Tesla.” The complete destruction of the Gigafactory and with it the sawing off of “technofascists” like Elon Musk, who is called “Misery Musk” in the letter, is a step on the path to liberation from patriarchy.
Production shut down for the next few days
According to the police, unknown persons set fire to a high-voltage pylon in a district of Gosen-Neu Zittau between Steinfurt and Hartmannsdorf, as a result of which the power supply failed in numerous surrounding towns and in the nearby Tesla factory in Grünheide. According to a Tesla spokeswoman, there was a production standstill and employees were sent home. A Tesla spokesman said they do not expect production to resume this week. The company announced that it expected a high nine-figure loss caused by the production stop.
According to the energy company Edis, there were supply outages in Freienbrink, Erkner, Neuzittau, Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten, Neuenhagen, Woltersdorf, Gosen and Schöneiche. By late Tuesday morning, all affected communities were able to be supplied with electricity again through switching – with the exception of a large industrial settlement and a logistics center, as it was said.