Police began clearing Lützerath on Wednesday, which originally housed more than 400 activists. Environmental activists built shelters there to protest the destruction. The village has become a symbol of the fight against climate change in Germany in recent days.
At least 15,000 people, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, protested the destruction near Lützerath on Saturday. However, some of the demonstrators tried to enter the settlement directly, which was blocked by the police despite the use of water cannons and batons.
The rainy weather and the use of pressurized water in the previous days turned it into a great place. paddy fieldsHe even betrayed the cops who intervened.
As the opening video suggests, a somewhat hilarious situation ensued when some heavy-duty men fell and their colleagues had to pull them out.
By Monday, police had managed to clear the settlement. However, Pinky and the activist couple, nicknamed Brain, ended up in an underground tunnel they dug. But they, too, left voluntarily on Monday morning.
Listen to the 5:59 podcast episode about the German protest
The municipality of Lützerath in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has become a battleground between the coal industry and the climate movement. How does the German government explain the need to mine the land under Lützerath?
On Monday, other climate activists occupied an excavator at the Hambach open pit mine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
A spokesperson for RWE, which owns the mine, told DPA a total of four people had been at the facility since the early morning hours. The excavator is out of order.
According to the protest group Gegenangriff – für das gute Leben (Counter attack – for a good life), the excavation machine was occupied by eight activists. The purpose of the event was to express solidarity with the people in nearby Lützerath. The group also criticized the actions of the police in this village and demanded the socialization of energy production in Germany.
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