A Tesla dealership was a victim of a fire on the night of this Sunday 2 to Monday, March 3. A place located in Plaisance-Du-Touch (Haute-Garonne), near Toulouse.
An estimated prejudice at 700,000 euros
A criminal fire after the office, which revealed this information on Monday. “Eight cars are completely smoked, while others are seriously damaged,” says the regional newspaper, adding that a section of the fence surrounding this site had been cut. The damage is estimated at 700,000 euros.
“The investigations are open for a voluntary fire,” said AFP, a magistrate from the Toulouse prosecutor’s office, evoking “several volunteer firefighters and an origin that” is nothing accidental. “
It was the Toulouse-Mirail of the Gendarmerie Research Brigade that was in charge of the investigation.
Philippe Guyot, the mayor of Plaisance-Du-Touch, a city of 20,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Toulouse, told AFP that the Firefighters had “carried out the first analysis to determine the origin of the disaster, but with three exits of fire departures, it is necessarily a criminal fire.” “The buildings (of the concession) have not been affected,” he added.
Context of criticism aimed at Elon Musk
Fire occurs in a context of criticism against the political positions of Elon Musk, owner of the brand of electric cars, and near the US president Donald Trump.
At the beginning of February, it was the Tesla store where the French seat of the entity that had been attacked in Saint-Oue was also located: a brown liquid had been projected in the store and the windows of the facade.
A few days before, in the Netherlands, a Tesla dealership had been destroyed with swastika graffiti, had reported the media. Dutch news.
Source: BFM TV
