Vandals sprayed swastikas and anti-fascist slogans on a Tesla car showroom in The Hague on Sunday night in a jab at owner Elon Musk, who is an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump and faced outrage for delivering a “Nazi salute” last month.
The perpetrators defaced the building’s facade with slogans like “No to Nazis” and “Fuck off fascist,” and drew swastikas on the entrance door of the building, echoing a similar incident that took place in Berlin last week.
During that protest, political activists projected an image of Musk’s stiff-arm salute and the word “Heil” onto the Tesla factory just outside the German capital. The police have started investigating the matter.
Dutch police in The Hague did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for comment.
Musk’s salute at the Trump inauguration party immediately generated a viral and divided response, with online critics attacking the tech billionaire for the gesture and supporters minimizing its significance. Musk defended himself online, denouncing the attacks as “dirty tricks” from his opponents. “The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired,” he said.
Musk has also expressed his support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in recent months, interviewed party leader Alice Weidel on his X social media platform ahead of the Feb. 23 national election and controversially urged Germans to forget their “past guilt” right before Holocaust memorial day.
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