On Friday, four Tesla vehicles were burnt down in Germany, perhaps the last of a series of events and vandalism in progress worldwide, was intended for the automotive company since its CEO, Elon Musk, became a key figure in the administration of President Donald Trump.
German police said Four vehicles were set on fire In the Plänterwald and Steglitz districts in Berlin early Friday, adding that political motivations could not be excluded.
A Tesla burned car is in the Steglitz district in Berlin on Friday March 14, 2025, because four teslas are suspected of having been burnt down in Berlin.
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The first fire was reported just before 2 a.m., and three other fires were alerted shortly after. German police say that even if no one was injured, the four vehicles were damaged beyond use And nearby vehicles have also been damaged.
A Tesla burned car is in the Steglitz district in Berlin on Friday March 14, 2025, because four teslas are suspected of having been burnt down in Berlin.
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The last months have seen a series of acts targeted against Tesla, since Musk has been in charge of the Ministry of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) by Trump shortly after its entry into office. Since then, the cost reduction organization has drawn tens of thousands of government employees, with more follow -up.
THURSDAY, Shots were fired on a Tesla dealer In Oregon for the second time in a week, causing large damage to cars and windows in the exhibition hall, reports the Associated Press. A similar shooting occurred a week ago, March 6, in the same place.
Last weekend, hundreds of demonstrators met in a Tesla in New York exhibition hall to express their frustration as to Musk’s participation in the US government.
Images captured during demonstrations at a Manhattan dealer show that the police have withdrawn a number of demonstrators from the interior of the premises, where glass doors had been broken.
Meanwhile, people gathered outside the establishment could be heard to sing: “We need clean air, not another billionaire.”
Protesters are arrested while they meet outside a Manhattan Tesla dealer to demonstrate against the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, on March 8, 2025, in New York.
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In March alone, incendiaries started fires on several Tesla facilities, in the United States and abroad.
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The independent reports that 12 Tesla vehicles were set on fire Apart from a dealer in Toulouse, France, March 5, destroying eight and seriously damaging four. Authorities have since opened a criminal investigation.
The same day, Seven Tesla charging stations in a shopping center In Littleton, in the Mass., About 60 kilometers outside Boston, were burned, causing heavy damage and sending thick smoke plumes.
The demonstrators in a suburb of Seattle also targeted a car dealer last weekend, paint by spray swastika and blasphemies Directed on Musk. In a separate incident in Seattle during the same weekend, four cybertrucks were destroyed in a fire in a tesla storage batch, although the authorities did not confirm if the fire was intentionally set up.
ATF investigators and a member of the Seattle fire service inspect Burned Tesla Cybertrucks in Tesla field in Seattle on Monday, March 10, 2025.
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In January, following a post-infant speech where Musk produced several Nazi salvation movements, the groups of militants based in the United Kingdom and Germany projected a motionless image of the billionaire technology magnate in the middle of the words “Heil Tesla” outside the Gigafactory of the Society in Berlin.
The projection was accompanied by a publication on social networks describing Musk’s links with several extreme rights activists and politicians, notably German AFD, a political party known to have used Nazi imagery to push racist rhetoric and undemocratic messaging.
The CEO of Tesla and Spacex, Elon Musk, made gestures while he speaks during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, January 20, 2025.
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Trump, on the other hand, bought a new Tesla on the alley of the White House on Tuesday, selecting a brilliant red sedan to show his support for Musk’s company after Musk’s return to advance the president’s political agenda and reduce the federal government.
People who protest against Tesla should be labeled domestic terrorists, said Trump on Tuesday during the waterfall, adding that demonstrators “harm a large American business”, and whoever using violence against the electric manufacturer “crossed hell”.
On his social media platform, Truth social, Trump blamed Tesla’s action on “radical left madness”, which, according to him, was trying to “boycott illegally and colusively” of the company.
President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speak to journalists near a Red Model S Tesla vehicle on the South White House lawn on Tuesday March 11, 2025, in Washington.
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It was the last example – and the most unusual – of the way Trump demonstrated loyalty to Musk, who passed his return campaign last year and was a key figure in his second administration. Tesla’s equity price increased by almost four% on Tuesday after dropping almost 48% since Trump took office in January.
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