While the Chancellor, Economics Minister and fans in the new Gigafactory were electrified with joy about Musk’s new electric car factory, protests spread outside – several times!
Climate activists from the groups “Sand in the Gears”, “Ende Gelände” and “Extinction Rebellion” protested against the “Gigafactory” and blocked a factory gate.
They criticized that the new factory endangered the water supply in Brandenburg and Berlin. In addition, it does not make sense to replace cars with internal combustion engines with electric cars.
For a good three hours, activists from “aktion_autofrei” then caused a mega traffic jam on Tuesday afternoon on the Berliner Ring to the south and east! In the early afternoon, five people occupied a motorway sign bridge at kilometer 33 and a bridge at kilometer 30 in protest against e-car production in Grünheide.
The activists at the sign bridge hung in front of the signs, secured with ropes, and pasted over the signs for the “Hangelsberg” exit with self-adhesive lettering: “E-mobility deMUSKieren – cars out! Electricity in Rad&Bahn” and “Traffic turnaround instead of building e-/luxury cars #TesladeMUSKieren.”
Alluding to Tesla boss Elon Musk, who opened the Gigafactory for his “Tesla” brand e-vehicles just a few kilometers from the protest sites.
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After all: in the afternoon at least the southbound lane in the direction of Dreieck Spreeau was released by the police. There the traffic rolled again.
Nothing worked on the oncoming lane in the direction of Dreieck Prenzlau. Reason: The two men who had abseiled down the signs initially did not want to release the sign bridge.