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Tesla fell on Wall Street on Monday as a British speleologist involved in rescuing children from a Thai cave threatened to press charges against carmaker CEO Elon Musk who called him a pedophile on Twitter.
At closing, the stock dropped 2.75% to $ 310.10 while Wall Street finished in a disorganized fashion, with the Dow Jones index taking 0.18% and the Nasdaq shedding 0.26% %. The boss of the US group Tesla and SpaceX indulged in a virulent attack on Vernon Unsworth, after this speleologist called "aborted" shot of Mr. Musk's failed offer of miniature submarine to help evacuate 12 young footballers trapped in a Thai cave, whose rescue ended on July 10.
The whimsical billionaire responded Sunday with a flurry of tweets referring to Mr. Unsworth, he did not not mentioned by name, calling it "pedo", diminutive in English pedophile. Later, Elon Musk, which has 22 million subscribers on Twitter, added a layer: "I bet a signed dollar that's true", before erasing his tweets thereafter. In an interview with AFP, Mr. Unsworth said he had not seen the tweets and had only heard about them.
Asked about possible lawsuits against Mr. Musk, he said : "if that's what I think, yes". The spelunker added that he would make a decision by returning this week to the UK. But the case "is not over," he warned. According to the British daily The Guardian, James Anderson, a partner in Baillie Gifford, one of Tesla's largest shareholders, said he was going to discuss Mr Musk's new misbehavior with the company's management. . The iconic boss of Tesla is a regular controversy through the social network Twitter, where he often attacks journalists, accused, according to him, too often target his company.
In May, he had indicated that he wants to develop a journaling platform called "Pravda".
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