Montreal Tesla dealership vandalized amid backlash against Elon Musk

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 19, 2025 1:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Activists sprayed overgarment connected the exterior of a Tesla dealership successful Montreal connected Wednesday, arsenic cases of vandalism climb in the United States and astir the satellite against Elon Musk's electrical car company.

Montreal constabulary arrested a young antheral and pistillate astatine the dealership connected Décarie Boulevard successful the city's Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough.

The clime radical Last Generation Canada claimed responsibility. In a connection posted online, the radical called connected Canada to "stand up" to Musk, who they said is "destroying democracies and spreading clime denial."

The aforesaid radical has been progressive successful different protestation stunts, specified arsenic erstwhile protesters climbed atop Montreal's Jacques Cartier Bridge past year.

Acts of vandalism against the electrical conveyance shaper person multiplied since U.S. President Donald Trump took bureau and appointed Musk, considered the world's richest man, to oversee the caller Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been slashing authorities spending and programs.

In caller weeks successful the U.S., Tesla showrooms, fleets, charging stations and privately owned cars person been targeted, and dozens of protests person been held extracurricular Tesla dealerships and factories successful North America and Europe.

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Trump gave a boost to the institution erstwhile he turned the White House driveway into an electrical conveyance showroom. He promoted the vehicles and said helium would acquisition an $80,000 Model S, eschewing his fierce past criticism of electrical vehicles.

Musk concisely addressed the contented Monday during an quality connected U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's podcast, saying astatine slightest immoderate of the vandalism is organized and paid for by "left-wing organizations successful America, funded by left-wing billionaires, essentially."

"This level of unit is insane and profoundly wrong," Musk wrote Tuesday connected X, sharing a video of burning Teslas successful Las Vegas. "Tesla conscionable makes electrical cars and has done thing to merit these evil attacks."