On Sunday, more than a thousand environmental activists demonstrated near Berlin against Tesla’s expansion plans. Moreover, the occupation of a forest area has been going on for more than ten days. This time the plans also received support: some residents took to the streets in support of Tesla.
There were sometimes verbal skirmishes between the two demonstration camps. There were protests for and against a planned expansion of the electric car factory, which would involve clearing more than 100 hectares of forest. In addition to the 300-hectare factory site, the car manufacturer wants to build a freight station, warehouses and a company kindergarten.
Here you can see a tweet from the demonstration on Sunday.
Steinbach: “False arguments”
“This worries me because it was clearly visible that there was demonstration tourism. We also experience this at the campsite, where people from Lower Saxony, from Lützerath, from Hambacher Forst are present. At the moment, this whole thing is being hijacked externally,” says Brandenburg’s Minister of Economic Affairs Jörg Steinbach (SPD).
False arguments are being used to stir up sentiment against Tesla. “Those who are protesting there at the moment must say very clearly to their fellow human beings that they want to continue to see more freight traffic,” the politician said.
Camp should no longer be tolerated
According to Steinbach, the camp should not be approved until mid-March. As reported, the police had set conditions for the environmental activists. They built tree houses and received in-kind donations from citizens of the region.
Other left-wing extremists were prepared to use violence. The ‘volcano group’ set fire to a high-voltage pylon on March 5 (see video above). This resulted not only in power outages at the Tesla factory in Grünheide, but also in several towns in the area. It was said on Monday that power supply could probably be restored before the end of this week. Steinbach praised the companies involved, who “worked in three shifts.”
Source: Krone
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