{"id":274034,"date":"2026-06-15T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=274034"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:54:18","slug":"burned-tesla-and-broken-un-office-windows-protesters-rally-against-g7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/274034\/","title":{"rendered":"Burned Tesla and broken UN office windows: Protesters rally against G7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Geneva police on Sunday fired teargas at protesters who set fire to a Tesla vehicle and smashed windows at a United Nations agency as they vented their anger at ‌a Group of Seven summit about to take place across the border in France, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Some 20,000 people gathered for a march that was initially peaceful but protesters later targeted what they depicted as symbols of capitalism and multilateralism, including the parked Tesla and the UN office.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators ripped bricks from the ground to throw at police, Reuters witnesses said.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators said they came to protest against the G7 as a symbol of concentrated political and economic power. Last week Tesla owner Elon Musk, who has worked as an advisor to US President Donald Trump, became the world’s first trillionaire.<\/p>\n

“To me, it’s a meeting of the rich that shows once again how the rich can become even ‌richer ⁠while the poor are left behind,” one of the protestors said.<\/p>\n

As noted, protests have been common at G7 gatherings over the years, with many demonstrators using the summits to decry capitalism, globalization, climate change and inequality.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geneva police on Sunday fired teargas at protesters who set fire to a Tesla vehicle and smashed windows at a United Nations agency as they vented their anger at ‌a Group of Seven summit about to take place across the border in France, Reuters writes. Some 20,000 people gathered for a march that was initially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":274032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274035,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274034\/revisions\/274035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}