Tesla boss Elon Musk was greeted with applause and chants from his employees chanting "Elon" during a surprise visit to the Grünheide plant, south of Berlin: it is the American carmaker's only European factory and had been blocked for eight days until today due to an arson attack that destroyed a nearby high voltage pylon.
This was reported by the Dpa agency.
Musk came to take stock of the situation on the day production resumed, announced by a company spokeswoman, and around noon he spoke with employees under a tent inside the factory perimeter.
The multibillionaire, during his appearance, carried a child in his arms and on his shoulders, whose identity was not revealed.
After Musk, plant director André Thierig also spoke to the employees and thanked them for how they behaved during the lockdown.
“This (was) an attack on the Gigafactory,” he said, but “we are all united.”
The employees are happy with the resumption of production, works council president Michaela Schmitz told a local broadcaster.
On Tuesday last week, fire was set on a pylon outside the factory perimeter but which supplies power to it.
The left-wing extremist group Vulkan claimed responsibility for the attack and the investigations are being conducted by the federal prosecutor's office, the one responsible for terrorism crimes.
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