[Auto/Moto] Angry at Mercedes, a former employee destroyed 50 vehicles with a bulldozer

[EvKirito]

 

A former employee of the Mercedes factory in Vitoria, in northern Spain, out of spite towards the company destroyed about 50 new vans with an excavator, police sources said Tuesday.

The 38-year-old man first stole the excavator from another company, 21 km from the Mercedes factory. Once there, he destroyed the entrance door, and then "attacked with the vehicle fifty vans parked in the parking lot" of the German manufacturer, the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicated. The events occurred at dawn on December 31.

Iñaki Andrés Lozares, union representative at the Mercedes factory, made a balance of 69 damaged vehicles in total. The management did not want to comment on the events at the moment.

In the photos published in the local press, you could see one van overturned on top of another, and some more completely dented or with the hood smashed.

The man, according to police, was a former Mercedes employee. His contract had ended at the end of 2017, according to Iñaki Andrés Lozares.

He apparently felt "frustration, not only towards management but towards employees," too, and even "tried to enter the assembly facilities" of the factory, explained the union representative, one of the 5,000 employees at the plant.

The damage caused would amount to between two and five million euros, according to sources from the German company cited by the local press.