Activists want to storm the factory premises in Grünheide – three police officers injured

Activists tried to break into the Tesla factory site on Friday. Emergency services prevented this, the police said on Friday afternoon. The emergency services described the protest situation around the plant in Grünheide near Berlin as very dynamic.

There were several small groups of demonstrators walking around the site, a police spokesman said. According to the police, there were people in the parking lot in front of the Tesla factory several water cannons and a clearing tank. However, these were not initially used. The police were on site with numerous forces.

The activist platform “The Brake” published a video in the early afternoon showing a large crowd of people, some of whom were masked, running towards the Tesla factory. Police forces with protective helmets and batons can also be seen in the crowd. In another video, police officers can be seen using tear gas against individual activists.

A police spokesman initially wanted to do so in the afternoon no precise information on the number of demonstrators make. There have been arrests and criminal investigations are being initiated, the spokesman said, without providing further details. There is currently still a blockade on Highway 23 near Fangschleuse, which has been approved as a spontaneous meeting. Around 70 people blocked the road and the exit from the A10 motorway, the police said. Some activists stuck themselves to the road, others placed tree trunks on the road as obstacles.

There will also be an action on Neuhardenberg airfield east of Berlin, which according to the spokesman was seen as a spontaneous meeting, was still accompanied by the police. Masked people had previously appeared there and set off pyrotechnics. There was then a sit-in there. Ferat Koçaka member of the Left in the Berlin Parliament, published a video on

In the afternoon the situation calmed down for the time being. A large number of the activists began their journey back to the protest camp on the country roadsaid a police spokesman. According to a dpa reporter, there were repeated scuffles with the police and occasional arrests.

When asked, a spokeswoman and a spokesman for various protest groups also described that demonstrators had left the forest on the site again. From there they had previously tried to gain access to the company premises. According to their own statements, the police were able to prevent this.

A woman was injured during the protests around the factory premises. Add to that three injured police officers. According to police, there were several arrests. Several people had to receive medical treatment on site.

At 1:50 p.m., the Brandenburg police announced on X that the railway line at Fangschleuse station was open again. The Route between Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) had previously been closed because activists sat on the tracks.

There are also protests against Tesla in Berlin

The police had tried in advance to shield the area of ​​the only Tesla factory in Europe, and several motorway exits were closed.

In Berlin, activists from the Robin Wood movement also demonstrated against the US car manufacturer in front of the Mall of Berlin on Friday. “Clean cars are a dirty lie!” was written on the banner that the protesters held up there on Friday morning. In the Mall of Berlin there is a Tesla exhibition shop. The activists also set up a tripod – a large tripod – in front of the shopping center to which a climber attached himself.

Since Wednesday, Tesla opponents have called for days of action against the car manufacturer in Grünheide, Brandenburg. The background is the planned expansion of the plant.

FDP state leader Zyon Braun condemned the activists’ actions. “Our constitutional state must protect peaceful demonstrators, but take decisive action against riot tourism. Anyone who attacks police officers, sets off pyrotechnics, occupies tracks or tries to get onto the factory premises must be prevented from doing so and held responsible,” said Braun. He called on all peaceful demonstrators to distance themselves from violent activists.

Tesla employees in the home office

Tesla wanted workers at the Grünheide plant near Berlin on Friday amid the protests just let you work from home. The electric car manufacturer also emphasized that the day off after Ascension Day had already been announced to the workforce in January.

“The fact that there will be no production on Bridge Day has nothing to do with the protests,” said a spokeswoman on Tuesday. However, with this in mind, it was decided that “the rest of the workforce would work from home”. When asked on Friday, the company initially did not comment on the course of the protests.

The US automaker had in March after a Arson attack on a power pole production in its factory in Grünheide, Brandenburg, had to stop for a few days. A left-wing extremist group claimed responsibility for the crime. In addition, Teslas parked in various places have repeatedly burst into flames in the past.

Since the end of February, climate activists have been protesting in a camp with tree houses very close to the car factory in Grünheide against the planned expansion of the Tesla site and the clearing of forest. The police want to ensure that the tree houses are dismantled. A legal dispute is currently ongoing. (with dpa)