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Thousands of people demonstrate in Lützerath, Germany, where there are also violent clashes with the police. A spokesman for the Aachen police reported this to the Ansa news agency. “There are violent clashes, some demonstrators throw rockets and stones and the agents had to use pepper spray,” said Dietmar Brüning.
The leader of the environmental youth movement Greta Thunberg is to give a speech on site.
Meanwhile, about fifteen demonstrators entered the mine where coal is to be mined: “A very risky gesture: the ground is wet, it could collapse and there is a risk that they will remain buried,” added the spokesman.
The vast majority of anti-mining protesters in Lützerat, Germany are peaceful, but there are external elements, such as black blockades, that are fueling clashes with law enforcement. According to the spokesman for the Aachen police, Dietmar Brüning, “it is not climate activists who are firing rockets at the police”.
Germany, the clearance of the mine in Lützerath is underway
The clearance work of the activists who have remained on site for days has continued: According to the police, there are only around twenty inmates who have climbed the tree houses at a great height. Two people remain in the tunnel dug at the site.