Police prevent environmental activists from storming Tesla factory in Germany

Police carry a activist from a blocade, at the access road to Neuhardenberg airfield, in Neuhardenberg, Germany , Friday, May 10, 2024. Tesla vehicles produced at the Gr’nheide plant are temporarily stored on the airfield site. “Clean cars are a dirty lie” is written on a banner in front of the Tesla store in the Mall of Berlin, Friday May 10, 2024 during a protest.

Crowds of demonstrators gathered near the Grunheide factory, Tesla’s only European production base, on Friday carrying banners complaining about water consumption at the plant and advocating for public transport over private cars.near the plant since February over concerns about water and plans to cut trees to make way for an expansion of the plant, which opened in early 2022.

Company CEO Elon Musk at the time called the culprits the “dumbest eco-terrorists on Earth” and said anti-Tesla protesters were misguided for aiming to halt production of electric vehicles rather than those powered by fossil fuels. During Friday’s protest march at a nearby train station, “hundreds of participants ran into the forest and tried to get onto the Tesla site,” police spokesman Mario Heinemann said on ntv television. “We prevented that with our forces.

Police said demonstrators also blocked a nearby highway and a railway line, and set off fireworks at an airfield where Tesla stores new cars.“Companies like Tesla are happy to destroy habitats for their own profit,” said Ole Becker, a spokesman for “Disrupt Tesla,” a group that helped organize the protest. “Instead of SUVs for the few, we must build buses and trains for the many.”

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