About 1,200 activists stormed Tesla’s site in Grünheide, near Berlin. Protests have been taking place since last weekend against the car manufacturer, which plans to expand in Grünheide. Around noon the action escalated and the German police could no longer control the activists. According to the German newspaper Bild, three police officers and one activist were injured in the storm.
LOOK. Protest at Tesla factory in Germany
Footage on social media shows protesters walking along the factory railway tracks and climbing fences. There are also images of clashes with police, who drag some activists to the ground.
The Grünheide municipal council was expected to approve the development plan for the expansion of the car factory on May 16. “We will influence the city council members to ensure that this does not happen,” activist Manu Hoyer of the citizens’ initiative Grünheide told the German newspaper Bild.
According to the police, the demonstrators were able to break through because the site, with its 300 hectares, is too large to be fully secured. The rioters are said to have divided into two groups to confuse the police.
Officers from the Berlin, Brandenburg and Federal Police are now preventing them from advancing further. The police have also reportedly arrested some demonstrators.
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