Incendiary devices were discovered on the Northvolt site, in Montérégie, says the company, which “vigorously” condemns this act which has not been claimed.
Posted at 1:28 p.m.
Updated at 2:27 p.m.
The devices, initially presented as “homemade bombs” in a press release from the multinational, were allegedly placed under machinery during the weekend.
These would be containers filled with a flammable liquid, but which did not have the capacity to explode, indicated to The Press police sources.
“The triggering devices did not work,” declared the president and CEO of Northvolt North America, Paolo Cerruti, denouncing an act of vandalism “seriously endangering Northvolt employees and partners”.
The installation of these explosive devices is not the work of Climate Rage, a coalition of anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist environmental activists having carried out sabotage actions on the Northvolt site in recent months , she told The Press.
The Richelieu–Saint-Laurent Intermunicipal Police Authority is leading the investigation.
In January, Northvolt began work to prepare the site which will host its future battery mega-factory in Saint-Basile-le-Grand and McMasterville.
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