‘We will bring Tesla to its knees’ German protestors plot more gigafactory attacks

The left-wing militant protestors that attacked Tesla’s gigafactory near Berlin have vowed to bring the company “to its knees.”
On Friday, around 800 protestors clashed with police as they tried to storm the Tesla plant in Grundheide.
The protests have popped up on a number of occasions as activists look to stop the factory from being expanded due to environmental concerns.
Earlier this year, protestors from the Volcano Group set up camps in the forest near the plant and shut down the facility with an arson attack.
In a 2,700-word letter posted online, the group has accused CEO Elon Musk of “militarizing the road” with cars as a “weapon.”
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They added: “Together we will bring Tesla to its knees. Switch off for Tesla.”
The group has also posted online that it was “looking forward to an exciting week of action” and that there were “many opportunities to attack companies like Tesla.”
Vulkan Group has been listed as an extremist organization by German authorities.
After March’s arson attack, Musk at the time called the culprits the “dumbest eco-terrorists on Earth” and said anti-Tesla protesters were misguided for aiming to halt production of electric vehicles rather than those powered by fossil fuels.
During Friday’s protest march at a nearby train station, “hundreds of participants ran into the forest and tried to get onto the Tesla site,” police spokesman Mario Heinemann said on television.
He added: “We prevented that with our forces.”
Ole Becker, a spokesman for ‘Disrupt Tesla’, said: “Companies like Tesla are happy to destroy habitats for their own profit. Instead of SUVs for the few, we must build buses and trains for the many.”
Police said demonstrators also blocked a nearby highway and a railway line and set off fireworks at an airfield where Tesla stores new cars.
Police detained several people temporarily, German news service DPA reported.