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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Italian police increase security at Tesla dealerships after 17 cars destroyed in Rome fire

Firefighters tackling a fire
Firefighters tackling the fire at the Tesla dealership in Rome in the early hours of Monday. Photograph: Vigili del Fuoco/AFP/Getty Images

Italy’s interior ministry has written to police forces across the country to increase security at Tesla dealerships after 17 of the electric cars made by Elon Musk’s company were destroyed in a fire in Rome.

Italy’s state police anti-terrorism unit, Digos, is investigating whether the fire at the Tesla dealership in Torre Angela, a suburb in the east of the capital, was started by anarchists.

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