Tesla CEO Elon Musk downplayed the protests by pointing out it's National Protest Week in Germany.
Hundreds of climate protestors upset with the environmental impact of Tesla ’s manufacturing plant in Grünheide, Germany broke through a police line and stormed Europe’s lone Gigafactory on Friday, according to several reports on social media. The protestors were stopped at a fence and failed to get inside the plant, though local German news outlet DW reports people were arrested. It’s not yet clear how many.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tried to minimize the protest on Friday, calling reports “fake news,” though it’s not entirely clear what he was calling fake. “This is fake news. Protesters did not manage to break through the fenceline,” Musk said on X, though nobody had claimed a fence was broken. “There are still 2 intact fence lines all around. Note, this is ‘National Protest Week’ in Germany, so there are a lot of protests for many different reasons,” he continued.
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