Elon Musk Tesla launches “distorted” sabotage after the Las Vegas vehicle fires

CEO of Tesla and Spacex Elon Musk He says he is shocked by the high number of protests against his electric car company.

During an interview with Fox News Hanity host on Tuesday, the technological billionaire said, “It was a great shock to me that there is this level of hatred and violence from the left.”

“I believed that the left, as you know, the Democrats, was supposed to be the sympathy party, the Welfare Party. However, they burn cars. They are entrusted with firefighting operations. They fired bullets in the agents. They are destroying.”

“Tesla is a peaceful company, we have never done anything harmful, and I did nothing harmful, I only did fruitful things,” continued, before calling the attacks “distorted”, and claiming that there should be “a kind of mental illness that happens.”

Musk also gave “greater powers at work”.

“Who finances it and who coordinates it?” He concluded.

There is no evidence indicating the wide coordination, and there was no confirmation of the political affiliations involved in the protests.

Musk’s comments were in response to Fire in the Tesla collision center In Las Vegas.

According to Las Vegas police, the officers arrived at about 2:45 am on Tuesday to many burning vehicles and the word “resistance” spraying at the front of the work.

At least five vehicles were damaged by fire, two of which were completely immersed.

Police says that the suspect used Molotov cocktails and a firearm for the attack, with evidence indicating that at least three rounds of ammunition were fired in vehicles. The uninterrupted Molotov cocktail was also recovered from the crime scene.

“It seems that this is the targeted attack on a #tesla Facility. There is no constant threat, but out of abundance of caution, we have increased patrols around Tesla sites. ”Las Vegas police participated on X, along footage of fires.

The FBI is currently investigating and says it does not rule out the possibility of terrorism.

Special agent Spencer Evans told reporters that the accident “had some distinctive features” of a terrorist attack, but it was very early that the investigation was sure.

He said: “One of the things that I wanted to highlight and make it clear, especially in light of the report that continued throughout the country about similar incidents, and the attacks targeted in Tesla facilities, is that violent acts such are unacceptable regardless of the place where it occurs.”

“For those who believe that something like this can be justified or likely to be impressive, we want to inform you that it is a federal crime, and we will come after you, and we will find and judge you to the maximum of the law,” adding that anyone thinks of a similar act should think twice.

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The Las Vegas accident is the latest in a series of Tesla attacks in the United States and beyond its borders.

On Monday night, two Tesla were burned online at an agency in Kansas City, Missouri.

Police said that one of the officers discovered the agency before midnight in a short time of March 17.

Last week, he buried four vehicles in Berlin, Germany. Likewise, on March 13, Gunshots were fired at Tesla Agency In the state of Oregon for the second time a week, causing extensive damage to cars and window windows, the Associated Press reported.

On March 8, Footage captured during Protests In the Manhattan Tesla showroom, the police appear while removing a number of demonstrators from inside the building, where the glass doors were destroyed.

The demonstrators also gathered outside the facility and can hear while chanting, “We need clean air, not another billionaire.”

Six people, five of the unorganized behavior and one to resist the detention were arrested, according to media reports.

In Toulouse, France, 12 Tesla vehicles were shot Outside the agency on March 5, eight was destroyed and heavily attached to four. The authorities have since opened a criminal investigation.

On the same day, Seven Tesla charging stations in a mall In Litleton, Massachusetts, about 60 km outside Boston, it was burned, causing severe damage and sending columns of thick smoke.

– With files from Global News’ Michelle Butterfield