Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire at a service centre in the US as anti-Elon Musk protests intensified over his controversial ties with the Donald Trump administration. Personal details of car owners were also leaked on a doxing site. The arson attacks escalated on Tuesday when a person used Molotov cocktails to torch five Tesla cars in Las Vegas.
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00:00Another attack on Tesla in the United States.
00:04A Tesla service center was set on fire in Las Vegas
00:07just days after cyber trucks were targeted in Seattle.
00:11The blaze triggered sharp attacks by both Tesla chief Elon Musk
00:14and US president Donald Trump.
00:16Initial probe points towards the charge that the fires were deliberately set.
00:20The FBI is taking over the investigation to probe if there's a larger conspiracy in all of this.
00:25The Tesla chief blamed the violence on the left
00:28claiming Democrats were deliberately targeting him and Tesla for his work
00:33as the door chief is curbing corruption and stopping government fraud.
00:37US president Donald Trump called the arson an act of domestic terror
00:41and said the attackers will be caught.
00:43It's going to be revealed whether they were funded by the left or not.
00:48As you know and as you heard this morning, the FBI has opened an investigation
00:52into what was reported initially as an arson
00:56at a Tesla facility that occurred at the Tesla Collision Center in Las Vegas.
01:00As Assistant Sheriff Corrin noted, the FBI is working hand in glove
01:05with our partners at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
01:07to investigate this incident.
01:09This is being investigated by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
01:13We are working tirelessly to gather all the facts.
01:15Our agents have been on scene since early this morning.
01:18One thing that I wanted to highlight and make crystal clear,
01:21especially in light of reporting that's been ongoing around the country
01:24about similar incidents, targeted attacks at Tesla facilities,
01:28is that violent acts like this are unacceptable regardless of where they occur.
01:33And specifically to those who might think that something like this
01:36is justifiable or potentially even admirable,
01:40we want to let you know it's a federal crime.
01:42We will come after you. We will find you
01:45and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
01:47I encourage anyone that's considering something like this to seriously reconsider.