Leftwing group claim responsibility for Tesla factory arson attack in Berlin

The Vulkan activist group has claimed responsibility for a dawn arson attack on an electricity pylon at Tesla's factory in Berlin, which Tesla bosses said would halt production until the end of the week. In a 2,500-word letter released on Tuesday, the group said the factory consumed natural resources and labour and was neither ecological nor sustainable. Tesla bosses said the damage ran into hundreds of millions of euros, and Brandenburg's interior minister, Michael Stübgen, called it a perfidious attack on the electricity infrastructure. Police have opened a criminal investigation and are checking the letter's authenticity.