米欧のテスラ販売店前でデモ、マスク氏に抗議

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】米欧各地のテスラの販売店前で２９日、同社のイーロン・マスク最高経営責任者（ＣＥＯ）に抗議するデモが行われた。マスク氏はドナルド・トランプ米大統領の上級顧問として別格の権力を握っている。（写真は、イーロン・マスク氏に抗議するデモ参加者）
　ここ数週間、テスラの車両や販売店などに対する破壊行為が広がっており、マスク氏率いる政府効率化省（ＤＯＧＥ）の無慈悲な人員削減や、同氏の政治介入に対する抗議が続いている。米当局はテスラに対する攻撃を「テロ行為」と非難している。
　ニューヨーク・マンハッタンのテスラ販売店の外では２９日、数百人が集まった。
　参加者の一人はマスク氏について「副大統領のように振る舞っている」「私たちの政府の解体にまい進し、民主主義を解体しようとしている」と語った。
　集会を主催した環境活動家グループ「プラネット・オーバー・プロフィット」は、「マスク氏を阻止することが人命を救い、私たちの民主主義を守ることにつながる」と述べた。
　抗議はフロリダ、マサチューセッツ、カリフォルニアの他、ロンドン、ベルリン、パリなどの欧州の都市でも行われた。
　テスラにコメントを求めたが、返答はなかった。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/03/31-16:56）

Demonstrators descended on Tesla dealerships across the United States and in Europe and Canada on Saturday to protest company chief Elon Musk, who has amassed extraordinary power as a top advisor to US President Donald Trump.
Waving signs with messages like Musk is stealing our money and Reclaim our country, the protests largely took place peacefully following fiery episodes of vandalism on Teslas in recent weeks that US officials have denounced as terrorism.
Hundreds rallied Saturday outside the Tesla dealership in New York's Manhattan.
Some blasted Musk, the world's richest man, while others demanded the shuttering of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is dramatically slashing the federal government.
Amy Neifeld, a 70-year-old psychologist who had not joined a protest since marching against the Vietnam War in the 1970s, accused Musk of leading the country toward fascism.
I'm Jewish, so I grew up with a great awareness of fascism, she told AFP. And it has just gotten uglier and uglier since Trump returned to the White House.
He acts like he's the vice president, said New York protester Eva Mueller of musk. He's dismantling, actively, our government, he's dismantling our democracy.
The protest was organized by the environmental activist group Planet Over Profit, which argues stopping Musk will help save lives and protect our democracy.
In Washington's posh Georgetown neighborhood, some 150 people gathered in a festive mood on an unseasonably warm day, dancing and cheering as passing cars honked.
Protests also took place in Florida, Massachusetts and California, as well as in in European cities such as London, Berlin and Paris.
In Canada's Vancouver, where around one hundred people protested at a Tesla dealership, one person in a dinosaur costume held a placard that said, You thought the Nazis were extinct? Don't buy a Swasticar.
A small group of Americans held signs outside a Tesla dealership in the French capital, including one that read Send Musk to Mars now.
Musk and Trump are destroying our democracy, not obeying the basic rules of our country, and firing people at agencies that do very important work, said Raf, 59, a Paris protester who did not wish to give his last name.
Asked for reaction to the protests, Tesla did not immediately respond.
Acts of vandalism against Tesla vehicles, dealerships and other facilities have spread for weeks, in protest both against Musk's ruthless job-cutting work, and what has been seen as his unwelcome interference in politics.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi has denounced the attacks on Tesla as domestic terrorism.