2024-03-06 11:28:13
After a suspected arson attack, the US car manufacturer Tesla expects production to be lost for days at its factory in Grünheide near Berlin. The police are continuing to investigate and the letter of confession from the left-wing extremist “Vulkan Group” has been classified as genuine. We consider the letter to be genuine, authentic,” said a police spokeswoman on Wednesday. However, investigators are not yet talking regarding an attack.
“We’re still talking regarding intentional arson.” The “Vulkan Group” announced on Tuesday that it had sabotaged Tesla. The group accuses Tesla of “extreme conditions of exploitation.” The Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) had previously reported on the classification of the letter of confession.
Unknown perpetrators set fire to a power pole in a field. There was a blackout in Tesla’s only European car factory and for tens of thousands of residents in the region. The Tesla factory was evacuated and production stopped. Tens of thousands of residents in the region were now affected by the power outage. The alleged attack has sparked a debate regarding better protection of sensitive infrastructure in Germany.
According to Tesla, the consequences of the power outage are enormous: “We currently do not expect that we will be able to ramp up production once more this week,” said plant manager André Thierig. “Almost all of the approximately 12,000 employees had to be sent home on Tuesday because of the production shutdown.” Thierig spoke of damage “in the high nine-figure range”. Trucks were piled up in front of the plant on Tuesday.
Electric cars have been built in Grünheide for almost two years. The company wants to increase its production in Grünheide from the planned 500,000 cars a year to one million. The factory manager said: “I can’t say at this point whether this will have an impact on the further expansion of the factory.”
The alleged attack on the power supply at the Tesla car factory in Grünheide near Berlin has sparked a debate regarding better protection of sensitive infrastructure in Germany. “Politics and business are jointly required to ensure the security of networks and critical systems,” said the managing director of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), Martin Wansleben, on Wednesday. The German government must finally push forward legal regulations on this.
Tesla factory manager André Thierig said: “We hope that the security authorities in the state of Brandenburg and Germany will think regarding how this can be secured here.” The state government also announced that it wanted to strengthen protection, but also emphasized that there might be no 100% security.
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