(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, JAN 23 - Political activists in Germany
said Thursday they had projected an image of Elon Musk's
infamous raised-arm salute and the word "Heil" onto the outside
of his Tesla plant. The gesture made by Tesla and SpaceX CEO
Musk on Monday, the day of US President Donald Trump's
inauguration, drew comparisons to the Nazi salute, a claim Musk
has rejected. Campaigners from German group the Center for
Political Beauty and British activists Led by Donkeys shared
pictures and footage online of the protest action they said they
had staged late Wednesday. The word "heil" is seen projected
onto the factory near Berlin in the font of the automaker's
logo, to spell the message "Heil Tesla", a reference to the Nazi
greeting that honoured Adolf Hitler. Philipp Ruch, founder of
the Center for Political Beauty, said in comments to AFP that
Musk had given "a Hitler salute, just like American neo-Nazis
have been practising for years". Musk has rejected as "dirty
tricks" and "propaganda" any comparisons between the Nazi salute
and his gesture, which he repeated and accompanied with the
words "my heart goes out to you" to the audience. (ANSA-AFP).
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