Anti Telsa arson attacks in U.S., Europe

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More than a half-dozen Tesla charging stations were torched near Boston on Monday, police said, in what appears to be the latest attack on the company owned by Elon Musk, the billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump.

Police officers and firefighters rushed to The Point Shopping Center, at 830 Constitution Ave. in Littleton, Massachusetts, at about 1:10 a.m. and found Tesla charging stations "engulfed in flames and heavy, dark smoke," according to a police statement.

The first responders had Littleton Electric Light & Water Department shut down power as a "total of seven charging stations sustained heavy fire-related damage," police said.

There were no injuries.

Fire investigators believe that the "fire appears to have been intentionally set," police said.

"It's scary that somebody would come and torch these because it's hazardous to society, hazardous to the air and dangerous," Tesla driver Zaheer Kalvert, who regularly uses these chargers in Littleton, told NBC Boston. "It's really unfortunate."

A suspect in northern Colorado was arrested last week for allegedly trying to burn down a Tesla dealership in Loveland, police said.

And a Tesla Cybertruck was vandalized in the San Francisco suburb of Redwood City in late January.

Musk and Tesla have been targeted in Europe, too.

A suspected arson attack led to power being cut and production halted at Tesla’s plant in Grünheide, just southeast of Berlin, on Tuesday, authorities said.

Police had already been investigating an incident at that same plant in Grünheide, where a massive image of Musk making a gesture seen by many as resembling a Nazi salute was projected on the factory wall on the night of Jan. 23. Earlier that month, Musk — a supporter of Germany’s far right movement — made his now infamous, straight arm salute at a Trump inauguration event.

And eight cars were burned at a dealership in the southern French city of Toulouse during an apparent arson attack late Sunday night and early Monday morning, officials said