“Buy a Tesla, support fascism!” » It is with these words that the German collective “Center for Political Beauty” (ZPS) claimed Thursday to have projected Elon Musk's controversial greeting on one of its Tesla factories, near Berlin, in Germany. These activists denounce the gesture interpreted by some as a Nazi salute.
“We want to organize the destruction of Elon Musk in an artistic way,” Philipp Ruch, a leader of the collective, told AFP. On the controversial.
An hour-long action
The projection also shows the word “Heil” next to the illuminated sign of the electric car factory, so as to form the expression “Heil Tesla”, in reference to the Hitler salute. The case was referred to the public prosecutor's office, local police told AFP. According to the organizers, the action lasted an hour, also with screenings of Alice Weidel, candidate of the far-right AfD party for chancellor.
In a rally in support of Donald Trump on Monday evening, the richest man in the world twice extended his right arm to salute. Democratic elected officials and historians saw it as a fascist or Nazi salute, others interpreting it as a clumsy movement.
-Musk, AfD support
For several weeks, Elon Musk has regularly interfered in the campaign for the German legislative elections on February 23, in order to praise the far-right AfD party. He also called Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz “crazy” and “an incompetent imbecile” and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier a “tyrant”. Polls credit the AfD with second place with at least 20% of the vote, behind the conservatives.
