Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon musk He says he is shocked by the increasing number of protests against his electric vehicle company.
During the interview with the host Fox News, Sean Hannity on Tuesday, a technological billionaire said: “I really have shown that there is that level of hatred and violence on the left.”
“I thought the left, you know, Democrats, should have been a party of empathy, the party’s party. Still, they are burning cars. They are MPs. They shoot in bullets in MPs. They just break Teslas,” he said.
“Tesla is a peaceful company, we never did anything harmful, I never did anything harmful, I only did productive things,” he continued, before calling the attacks “belittled”, and claimed that there must be “a kind of mental illness.”
Musk also alluded to “greater forces at work.”
“Who fundes it and who coordinates it?” he concluded.
There is no evidence indicating broad coordination and there was no certificate of political affiliation involved in protests.
Men’s remarks were the answer to A fire at the Tesline collision center In Las Vegas.
According to the Las Vegas police, officials arrived on Tuesday at about 2:45 in the morning on several burning vehicles and the word “resistant” spray painted on the front of the job.
At least five vehicles were damaged from the flames, two of which were completely affected.
Police say the suspect used Molot’s cocktails and firearms to implement the attack, and evidence suggests that at least three rounds of ammunition have been fired in vehicles. An unexploded Molot cocktail was also taken out of the crime scene.
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“It seems to be a targeted attack on #Tela object. There is no threat, but from the abundance of caution, we increased the patrols around Tesla’s locations, “the police of Las Vegas divided it to X, with lateral shots of the fire.
The FBI is currently investigating and says that it does not exclude the possibility of terrorism.
Special Agent Spencer Evans told reporters that the incident “has some of the characteristics of” a terrorist attack, but that he is too early in the investigation to be sure.
“One thing I wanted to highlight and clarify, especially in the light of reporting that is underway across the country about similar incidents, targeted attacks on Tesla’s object, is that they are violent acts like this unacceptable no matter where they occur,” he said.
“To those who think that something like this is justified or potentially even wonderful, we want to inform you that it is a federal crime, we will come after you, we will find you and prosecute you to the most part of the law,” he continued, adding that anyone who thinks of a similar act should be thought twice.
The Las Vegas incident is the latest in a series of Tesla’s attacks in the USA outside its borders.
On Monday night, two Tesla Cybertrucks were burned in MPs at Kansas City, Missouri.
Police said the clerk noticed Cybertruck in a fire in representation shortly before midnight on March 17th. The cop tried to use fire extinguisher before he had to call the Kansas City Fire Department to help spread the fire.
Last week, four vehicles were lit in Berlin in Berlin. Similarly, March 13, Shots were fired in Tesla’s MP In Oregon for the second time a week, causing great damage to cars and exhibition windows, Associate Press reported.
8. March, Shots recorded during protests At Manhattan Tesla’s exhibition salon shows the police that removes a series of demonstrants from the premises, where the glass door broke.
Protesters Anti-Muza arrested outside in Tesla’s exhibition salon in NYC
The protesters also gathered outside the facility and could be heard singing: “We need clean air, not another billionaire.”
Six people were arrested, five for disorderly behavior and one for arresting, according to media reports.
At Toulouse in France, 12 Tesla vehicles were set on fire Out of MP March 5, destroying eight and hardly harmful four. The authorities have since opened a criminal investigation.
The same day, Seven Tesla Charging Stations at Market Center In Littleton, Massachusetts, they were burned about 60 km outside Boston, causing great damage to the thick smoke.
– With Global News ‘files’ Michelle Butterfield
