An unusual discovery has been made near the only European factory of electric car manufacturer Tesla. Environmental activists are also camping in the forest.
After a bomb from the Second World War was found near the factory of the US electric car manufacturer Tesla in Grünheide near Berlin, the possibility of setting up an exclusion zone is being considered. Environmental activists have been setting up a protest camp in the forest area since the end of February against the expansion of the Tesla site.
The bomb was found in the forest area where the expansion was planned through a new development plan, said the head of the public order office of the municipality of Grünheide, Nico Bauermeister, to the German Press Agency.
It is still unclear whether the camp with several tree houses will have to be evacuated. The head of the office said that the size of the exclusion zone is currently being considered and agreed upon, with a view to the bomb being detonated. The Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Company (RBB) had previously reported on the location of the bomb in the forest.
Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) had already warned in April that the forest could be contaminated with old munitions. The issue led to a dispute with the Ministry of the Environment. “We consider the risk to be very high,” Stübgen said at the time in the Interior Committee of the State Parliament. He had called on Environment Minister Axel Vogel (Greens) to clarify the risk of munitions. The State Forestry Authority owns the area. The only European Tesla factory, which opened around two years ago, is not far from the forest.
Source: Stern
