The activists sprayed painting outside a Tesla dealership in Montreal on Wednesday, as vandalism cases rise in the United States and worldwide against the Elon Musk electric car company.
Montreal police arrested a young man and a woman at the dealer in Decarie Boulevard in the district of Côte-Des-Neiges, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
The Last Generation Canada climate group affirmed responsibility. In an online published statement, the group asked Canada to “stand” to Musk, who said he is “destroying democracies and spreading climate denial.”
The same group has been involved in other protest acrobatics, such as the protesters He climbed on the Jacques Cartier de Montreal bridge last year.
The acts of vandalism against the manufacturer of electric vehicles have multiplied since the president of the United States, Donald Trump, assumed the position and appointed Musk, considered the richest man in the world, to supervise the new government efficiency department (Doge), which has been reducing the expense and government programs.
In recent weeks in the US, the Tesla exhibition rooms, fleets, cargo stations and private property cars have been attacked, and dozens of protests outside the concessionaires and tesla factories have been held.
The Vancouver International Auto Show eliminated Tesla from his event this week, saying that his main concern was the security of attendees and exhibitors.
Some Canadians also recently joined a wave of protests of “Tesla’s demolition”, on the role of Musk advising Trump, who in recent weeks slapped pronounced tariffs on Canadian goods, which caused a ongoing commercial war, and repeatedly suggested that Canada would be better as state 51.
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Trump gave the company a boost when he turned the entrance path of the White House into an electric vehicle exhibition room. He promoted the vehicles and said he would buy a S $ 80,000 model, avoiding their fierce critical fierce of electric vehicles.
Musk briefly addressed the theme on Monday during an appearance in the Podcast of the US senator. UU. Ted Cruz, saying that at least part of vandalism is organized and paid by “leftist organizations in the United States, financed by the left -ist billionaire, essentially.”
“This level of violence is crazy and deeply incorrect,” Musk He wrote Tuesday In X, sharing a Burning Teslas video in Las Vegas. “Tesla only makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.”
