Activists tried to enter the Tesla factory site on Friday. Police said on Friday afternoon that emergency services prevented it. Emergency services described the protest situation around the plant in Grünheide, near Berlin, as very dynamic.
By evening 16 people were taken into custody. Among other things, reports were filed for acts of resistance, disturbing peace, damage to property, violation of the Assembly Act and encroachment. According to Brandenburg police, several people were injured, including 21 police emergency services.
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A police spokesman said in the morning that several small groups of protesters were moving around the scene. According to the police, there were people in the parking lot in front of the Tesla factory Several water cannons and a clearing tank, However, these were not used initially. Police were present on the spot with huge force.
Activist platform “The Break” published a video in the afternoon showing a large crowd of people, some of whom were masked, running towards the Tesla factory. Police forces with protective helmets and batons can also be seen in the crowd. In another video, police officers can be seen using tear gas against individual activists.
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A police spokesman initially wanted to do so in the afternoon No accurate information about the number of protesters Make Arrests have been made and a criminal investigation is being launched, the spokesman said, without giving further details. The blockade of Highway 23 near Fangschluis was permitted as a spontaneous meeting. Police said about 70 people blocked the road and the exit from the A10 motorway. Some workers remained on the road, others placed tree branches on the road as barriers.
action on also Neuhardenberg airfield east of BerlinAccording to the spokesperson, what was seen as a spontaneous meeting was accompanied by police. Masked people had come there earlier and started making fireworks. After this a protest was organized there. Euphrates CossackA member of the left in the Berlin parliament published a video
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When asked, a spokesperson and a spokesperson for various protest groups also said that protesters had again left the forest on the site. From there he first tried to reach the company premises. According to their own statements, the police were able to stop it.
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At 1:50 pm, the Brandenburg police announced on the X that the railway line at Fangschluss station was open again. Route between Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) It was closed earlier because workers were sitting on the tracks.
Brandenburg’s Economics Minister Jörg Steinbach (SPD) criticized the events in Grünheide on Friday. ,There is nothing wrong with peaceful protests And citizens should be able to express their opinions,” he said. “It’s a central part of our democracy.” Abuse of freedom of assembly by radical groups And as protests grow, it is damaging to democracy and, at the very least, damaging to the reputations of those demonstrating peacefully and non-violently.
Protests are taking place against Tesla in Berlin too
Police had already tried to secure the area of Europe’s only Tesla factory and several motorway exits were closed.
In Berlin, activists from the Robin Wood movement also demonstrated against the American carmaker in front of a Berlin mall on Friday. The banner that protesters waved there Friday morning read, “Clean cars are dirty lies!” In berlin mall There is a Tesla exhibition shop. Workers also set up a tripod – a large tripod – in front of the shopping centre, to which a climber attached himself.
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Starting Wednesday, Tesla opponents have called for several days of action against the carmaker in Grünheide, Brandenburg. The background is a planned expansion of the plant.
FDP state leader Zion Braun condemned the activists’ actions. “Our constitutional state must protect peaceful protesters, but also take decisive action against riot tourism. Anyone who attacks police officers, sets off fireworks, occupies tracks or tries to enter factory premises must be stopped from doing so and held accountable, Braun said. He called on all peaceful protesters to distance themselves from violent activists.
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Tesla wanted workers at its Grünheide plant near Berlin on Friday amid protests just let you work from home, The electric carmaker also stressed that the post-Ascension Day holiday had already been announced for the workforce in January.
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“The fact that there is no production on Bridge Day has nothing to do with the protests,” a spokesperson said Tuesday. However, keeping this in mind, it was decided that “the rest of the workforce will work from home”. When asked Friday, the company initially had no comment about the protests.
The American automaker in March after a Arson attack on electricity pole Production at its factory in Grünheide, Brandenburg had to be halted for a few days. A left-wing extremist group has claimed responsibility for the crime. Additionally, Teslas parked at various locations have repeatedly burst into flames in the past.
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