A 38-year-old former Mercedes worker went on a little bit of a rampage just lately, when he trashed greater than 50 vans on the firm’s Vitoria, Spain meeting plant.

To perform this a lot destruction, he stole a backhoe, usually used for roadworks, and drove 21 km (13 miles) to the manufacturing facility within the capital of the nation’s Basque area, Spain’s Periodismo del Motor stories.

As soon as there, he broke via the manufacturing facility gate broken quite a few V-Class vans. It appears the person was finally in search of to enter the manufacturing facility. Having damaged the sliding door into the plant, the presumption is that he deliberate to break the meeting line, too.

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In all, native media estimate that the ex-employee did greater than 2 million Euros ($2.4 million USD) in property injury. Happily, the rampage occurred at evening when few individuals have been onsite.

The incident follows demonstrations by manufacturing facility employees, who say {that a} new shift scheme carried out by Mercedes will result in layoffs of 10 to fifteen% of the staff there.

Noticias de Gipuzkoa reports that Mercedes employees gathered in Vitoria on December 18 to protest layoffs, arguing that Mercedes may have explored options earlier than laying workers off.

The V-Class begins at 29,000 Euros and is massive, upmarket van for the European market. Powered by a hybrid powertrain, the inside is to designed to hold passengers in consolation.

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