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German police investigate salute, ‘Heil Tesla’ projected on Gigafactory near Berlin
The British campaign group "Led By Donkeys" has claimed responsibility for the stunt that authorities say may have breached German laws on the use of symbols linked to illegal organizations.
After initially denying that the action had actually taken place, a German police spokesman later told local public broadcaster RBB that officers were "no longer assuming that it didn't happen," having analyzed images online and been present on the ground.Originally established as an anti-Brexit campaign group in December 2018, "Led By Donkeys" has regularly carried out similar stunts in the United Kingdom, targeting populist British politicians such as former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson and far-right Brexit hardliner Nigel Farage in videos beamed onto famous buildings such as the Houses of Parliament in London. Philipp Ruch, artistic lead for the "Center for Political Beauty," told the German dpa news agency that activists had used a special projector to beam a video onto the outside of the Tesla building from a distance of several hundred meters and promised similar stunts to come. "Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah," the group said.
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