BInterior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) strongly condemned the alleged arson attack on a power line near the Tesla car factory in Brandenburg and called for comprehensive clarification. “Such an attack on our electricity infrastructure is a serious crime that cannot be justified by anything,” said Faeser on Tuesday in Berlin.
The investigation must examine whether there are political motives. “If a left-wing extremist motive is confirmed, then this is further evidence that the left-wing extremist scene does not shy away from attacks on critical energy infrastructure,” explained the Federal Interior Minister. This might affect thousands of uninvolved people. “This shows enormous criminal energy.”
Tesla boss Elon Musk wrote on Tuesday on the X portal, formerly Twitter: “These are either the stupidest eco-terrorists in the world or they are puppets of those who do not have good environmental goals.” , be extremely stupid. The company expects economic damage in the “high nine-digit range,” said Tesla representative André Thierig on Tuesday. It is assumed that the power supply will be interrupted for several days. It is unclear when production will resume. The company is now unable to produce more than 1,000 vehicles per day.
From Tesla’s point of view, it was clearly an “attack on this industrial settlement” in Brandenburg, said Thierig. There is currently a very critical mood once morest Tesla. That is very unpleasant. He cannot currently say whether this might have an impact on the future of the factory. However, there were no current threatening letters.
“Vulkangruppe” claims responsibility for attack
A left-wing extremist group had previously claimed responsibility for the suspected arson attack on an electricity pylon in Goßen-Neu Zittau (Märkisch Oderland district). The fire caused a major power outage in the region near the Tesla Gigafactory on Tuesday.
According to a letter of responsibility published on the Internet, the “volcano group,” which is classified as left-wing extremist, claims to have committed an “attack on the power supply.” “We sabotaged Tesla today,” the group wrote. The company eats “earth, resources, people, labor and spits out 6,000 SUVs, killing machines and monster trucks per week.” The group accused Tesla of “extreme conditions of exploitation” and called for the “complete destruction of the Gigafactory.”
The police have received the confession letter, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The authenticity is being checked. The police assume that the fire was started intentionally and a report of arson was filed, as the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung reports.
“Volcano group” in the Constitutional Protection Report
The “volcano group” was already suspected of carrying out an arson attack on the power supply at the Tesla construction site in 2021. At the time, she accused Tesla on the radical left-wing website Indymedia.org of being neither green, ecological nor social. The Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution wrote regarding the confession letter in its 2021 report. It also said: “In recent years, left-wing extremists have carried out arson attacks in Berlin as ‘volcano groups’ several times.”
As the police announced on Tuesday morning, the fire department was called to the fire at around 5:15 a.m. and began extinguishing the fire. There had previously been a loud bang around 4:50 a.m. and the Steinfurt substation near the Tesla factory caught fire, and the fire then spread to a high-voltage pylon. A police spokesman said the electricity pylon was free-standing in a field. The scene of the fire was regarding ten kilometers from the Tesla factory.
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