Billionaire Elon Musk has implemented strict security measures at his father Errol’s home in South Africa due to concerns over potential threats to the family, the 76-year-old said in a recent interview.
Errol Musk said the improved security features applied to his home include 24/7 video surveillance, electric fencing and an emergency power system.
“After recent threats against him, he decided I needed protection too,” Musk’s father said US Sun interview published last Friday. “In the event that they kidnap one in all us, it’ll be the fastest $20 million I’ve ever made.”
The elder Musk said he was contacted by “Elon’s people” after which received notice in December that a security company would upgrade his home’s defenses and supply ongoing support.
“They focus one hundred pc on me. It is a latest, super-large security company armed to the teeth.” “They keep checking me out. In the event that they see a wierd automotive in my driveway, they arrive and ask if I’m okay.”
Errol Musk said he had 4 burglaries at his home previously yr before security measures were put in place.
In recent months, Elon Musk has openly discussed the security threats he faced with a controversial Twitter review. In December, the CEO of Twitter shared a video of a “crazed stalker” allegedly following a automotive carrying his two-year-old son.
Musk also permanently banned a Twitter account run by college student Jack Sweeney that tracked the movements of his private plane. The billionaire has long referred to the account as a “security threat.” Sweeney has since arrange a latest account that posts information in regards to the flight 24 hours late.
When Twitter suddenly suspended the accounts of several journalists in December, Musk said it was because they’d distorted his real-time location – a move he claimed amounted to giving the general public “coordinates of the assassination.”
In December, Musk also said he faced a “fairly significant” assassination risk, and joked that he wouldn’t be attending any “outdoor automotive parades.”
The billionaire’s moves on the social networking site included the discharge of “Twitter Files,” an enormous dump of internal documents and communications detailing cases of censorship under the corporate’s old leadership.
Errol Musk said his son was “a bit naive in regards to the enemies he’s making for himself, especially with Twitter files.”
“I’m not scared, but I’m really scared that something could occur to Elon, regardless that he has about 100 bodyguards around him,” Errol said.
Elon and Errol Musk had a notoriously controversial relationship. In September, Elon said he had been supporting his father financially for the reason that Nineteen Nineties.
In a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, Musk described his father as “a superb engineer” but “such a terrible man”.