Elon Musk ‘making urgent visit to Tesla gigafactory’ crippled by Vulkan Group anarchists he slammed as ‘terrorists’

ELON Musk is set to make an urgent visit to one of his Tesla factories tomorrow after an extremist group set fire to a power plant nearby.

Anarchist Vulkan Group vowed “no Tesla is safe” after declaring war on the tech tycoon – prompting him to dub them “terrorists”.

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It’s not the first time Musk’s electrical cars have been targeted (15 of them were set alight in September 2023, pictured)

He is set to visit the gigafactory, Europe’s only Tesla plant, tomorrow morning after it was forced to halt production for days following the blaze.

Vulkan’s arson attack caused a power outage after an electricity pylon was set ablaze near the site.

Tesla boss Musk dubbed the strike a “dumb” hit by “eco-terrorists”.

Every day production was stalled cost Tesla between 40 and 50 million pounds, Bild reports.

And it wasn’t the first time Musk’s electric cars were targeted by a radical group.

In September last year fifteen of them were set alight in Frankfurt, leaving behind a trail of burn-out car corpses.

Cops and emergency services swarmed the site and searched the surrounding areas for the culprits.

But it wasn’t until Sunday that repair work on the python was complete and the factor get up and running again.

Then in a 2,700-word statement published online, the extremist far-left gang known as Vulkangruppe said: “We sabotaged Tesla today.”

They described the hit as a gift marking International Women’s Day on March 8.

The statement published by local media stated: “Tesla in Grünau eats up earth, resources, people, labor and spits out 6,000 SUVs, killing machines and monster trucks per week. 

“Our gift for March 8th is to shut down Tesla.”

“Together we will bring Tesla to its knees. Switch off for Tesla,” the statement concludes.

Police said they were aware of the letter and said they were checking its authenticity.

Local official Dietmar Woidke condemned the alleged attack and said: “This is obviously a serious attack on our critical infrastructure with consequences for thousands of people and many small and large companies in our state.

“Attacks on our critical infrastructure are a form of terrorism.”

Musk posted on X at the time: “These are either the dumbest eco-terrorists on Earth or they’re puppets of those who don’t have good environmental goals.

“Stopping production of electric vehicles, rather than fossil fuel vehicles, ist extrem dumm.” (“extremely dumb” in German).

The strike followed a series of further arson attacks against Tesla vehicles and charging stations. 

German police are investigating the hits as “left-wing politically motivated” crimes.

It is not the first time the Volcano group has been suspected of an arson attack against Tesla.

A construction site hit at Gruenheide damaged several power cables in 2021.

At the time, the far-left group accused Tesla of being neither green, ecological nor social. 

Meanwhile, environmental activists have been staging a protest in a forest near the plant against plans by Tesla to expand.

In the Stop Tesla protest, dozens of activists have put up tents and built treehouses, some of them several yards above the ground, a tactic used in previous German environmental protests.

Tesla is looking to expand the facility after the factory opened in March 2022.

German cops investigating the suspected arson attack in Brandenburg last week

The gigafactory is Europe’s only Tesla manufacturing plant