Montreal Tesla dealership vandalized amid backlash against Elon Musk

The activists sprayed the paint outside a Tesla dealership in Montreal on Wednesday, while the cases of vandalism climb the United States and all over the world against Elon Musk’s electric car company.

The Montreal police arrested a young man and a woman at the Boulevard Décarie dealership in the Costa-Des-Neiges district of the city.

The latest generation climatic group in Canada claimed responsibility. In a declaration published online, the group invited Canada to “get up” to Musk, who said that “destroys democracies and spreading the negation of the climate”.

The same group was involved in other protest acrobatics, such as when the demonstrators Scaled on top of Montreal Jacques Cartier Bridge Last year.

Acts of vandalism against the manufacturer of electric vehicles have multiplied since the President of the United States Donald Trump entered office and appointed Musk, considered the richest man in the world, to supervise the new department of government efficiency (doge), who has reduced the expenditure and government programs.

In the last few weeks in the United States, Tesla’s showrooms, fleets, charging stations and private owned cars have been targeted and dozens of protests were held outside the dealers and Tesla factories.

The Vancouver International Auto Show Tesla removed From his event this week, stating that his main concern was the security of the participants and exhibitors.

Some Canadians have also recently joined a wave of Protests “Tesla Takedown”On the role of Musk who advises Trump, who in recent weeks have slapped the strong rates on Canadian goods, triggering an ongoing commercial war and has repeatedly suggested that Canada would be better as the 51st state.

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Trump gave a push to the company when he transformed the road of the White House into a showroom of electric vehicles. He promoted the vehicles and said he would buy an $ 80,000 S model, avoiding his fierce criticisms passed to electric vehicles.

Musk briefly addressed the question on Monday during an apparition on the podcast of the American senator Ted Cruz, saying that at least part of the vandalism is organized and paid by “left organizations in America, financed by leftist billionaires, essentially”.

“This level of violence is crazy and deeply wrong”, Musk He wrote Tuesday On X, sharing a video of Teslas in flames in Las Vegas. “Tesla only makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.”