“Buy a Tesla, support fascism!” Ironically advance the German activists, who say they want to “organize the destruction of Elon Musk in an artistic way”.
The controversy around the gesture of the richest man in the world on the evening of the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House continues. A group of German activists claimed Thursday that it had projected the polemical salvation of Elon Musk, in large format, on its Tesla factory near Berlin to denounce the movement interpreted by some as a Nazi salute. In a support meeting for Donald Trump on Monday evening, the richest man in the world twice stretched his right arm to salute. Elected democrats and historians have seen it a fascist or Nazi salute, others interpreting it as an awkward movement.
On network X, ownership of Elon Musk, the group of activists published a night photo of the German factory of the billionaire, in Grünheide near Berlin on Wednesday evening, on the facade of which is projected in very large format the gesture controversial. The projection also shows the word «Heil» Next to the light sign of the electric car factory, so as to form the expression “Heil Tesla”in reference to Hitler's salvation. “Buy a Tesla, support fascism!”launched the collective on Thursday in another message where a video of the projection on the factory appears.
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“We want to organize the destruction of Elon Musk in an artistic way”told AFP Philipp Ruch, a collective manager “Center for political beauty” (ZPS). The case was sent to the prosecution, local police told AFP. According to the organizers, the action lasted an hour, with Alice Weidel's projections, candidate of the Far -right AFD party to the Chancellery. Inaugurated in 2022, the Grünheide factory is the only «gigafactory» European manufacturer of electric vehicles. Tesla did not respond to AFP requests.
-For several weeks, Elon Musk has regularly interfered in the German legislative elections campaign on February 23, in order to praise AFD. He also called the Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz as «fou» et “An incompetent fool” and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier de “tyrant”. Surveys credit AFD from second place with at least 20% of the vote, behind the conservatives. Accustomed to satirical actions, the ZPS had created in 2017 a miniature replica of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, just in front of the house of an AFD official.
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