Four Tesla vehicles were burned in Germany on Friday, possibly the last of a current series and vandalism series throughout the world addressed to the automotive company since its CEO, Elon Musk, became a key figure in the administration of President Donald Trump.
Said German police Four vehicles caught fire In the neighborhoods of Plänterwald and Steglitz in Berlin in the early hours of Friday, and added that political motifs could not be ruled out.
A burnt Tesla car is located in the Steglitz district in Berlin, on Friday, March 14, 2025, since it is suspected that four Teslas were burned in Berlin.
Christophe Gateau / DPA through AP
The first fire was reported just before 2 in the morning, and three other fires were alerted shortly after. The German police says that while no one was injured, the four vehicles were damaged beyond use And nearby vehicles were also damaged.
A burnt Tesla car is located in the Steglitz district in Berlin, on Friday, March 14, 2025, since it is suspected that four Teslas were burned in Berlin.
Christophe Gateau / DPA through AP
The last months have seen a series of specific acts against Tesla, since Musk was given by the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) by Trump shortly after assuming the position. Since then, the cost reduction agency has triggered tens of thousands of government employees, with more to follow.
Thursday, Shots shot at a Tesla concessionaire In Oregon for the second time in a week, causing extensive damage to cars and windows of the exhibition room, reports Associated Press. A similar shooting occurred a week before, on March 6, in the same place.
Last weekend, hundreds of protesters gathered in a Tesla exhibition hall of New York City to express their frustration on the high level of Musk with the United States government.
The images captured during the protests in a Manhattan dealership show that the police eliminate several protesters from the interior of the facilities, where the glass doors had been destroyed.
Meanwhile, people gathered outside the installation are heard singing: “We need clean air, not another billionaire.”
The protesters are arrested while they meet outside a Manhattan Tesla dealership to demonstrate against the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, on March 8, 2025, in New York City.
Spencer Platt / Getty images)
In March alone, the incendiary began fires in multiple facilities of Tesla, in the United States and abroad.
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The Independent informs that 12 Tesla vehicles caught fire Out of a concessionaire in Toulouse, France, on March 5, destroying eight and severely damaging four. Since then, the authorities have opened a criminal investigation.
The same day, Seven Tesla load stations in a shopping center In Littleton, Massachusetts, about 60 kilometers outside Boston, were burned, causing strong damage and sending thick smoke feathers.
The protesters in a suburb of Seattle also attacked a car dealership last weekend, painting spray Spastics and blasphemies aimed at musk. In a separate incident in Seattle during the same weekend, four cybertrucks were destroyed in a fire in a Tesla storage lot, although the authorities did not confirm whether the fire was established intentionally.
ATF researchers and a member of the Seattle Fire Department inspect Tesla Cybertrucks in a Tesla lot in Seattle, on Monday, March 10, 2025.
Lindsey Wasson / The Associated Press
In January, after a post-inugural discourse where Musk made multiple similar Nazi greeting movements, the United Kingdom activist groups and Germany project a fixed image of the multimillion-dollar technical magnate, along with the words “Heil Tesla” outside the company's gigafactor in Berlin.
The projection was accompanied by a social media post that describes the ties of Musk with several extreme right activists and politicians, including the AFD of Germany, a political party known to use Nazis images to boost racist rhetoric and anti -democratic messages.
Tesla and the CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, make gestures while speaking during the opening parade within the capital, a sand in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.
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Meanwhile, Trump bought a new Tesla on the entrance path of the White House on Tuesday, selecting a brilliant red sedan to show his support for the Musk company after the setback due to Musk's work to advance in the president's political agenda and reduce the size of the federal government.
People who protest against Tesla should be labeled as domestic terrorists, Trump said Tuesday during the trick, adding that protesters were “damaging a large American company”, and anyone who used violence against the electric car manufacturer “would go through hell.”
In its social media platform, Truth Social, Trump blamed the price of Tesla's shares, falls on “radical left lunatics”, whom he said they were trying to “illegally and collusively boycote” to the company.
President Donald Trump and the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, talk to journalists near a red -s tesla network in the White House Southn on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 in Washington.
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It was the last, and the most unusual, of how Trump has demonstrated loyalty to Musk, who spent a lot on his return campaign last year and has been a key figure in his second administration. The price of Tesla shares increased almost four percent on Tuesday after almost 48 percent fell since Trump took office in January.
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