Police clears open pit after storm by activists | ' | '
After the storm of several hundred climate protectors in the brown coal open-cast mine Garzweiler, the police have taken until the night of Sunday activists from the RWE premises. As a police spokeswoman of the German Press Agency said, the eviction took several hours. Many participants belong to the "End of the Alliance" alliance, which is engaged in actions of civil disobedience for an immediate coalition exit in Germany and for climate justice worldwide. According to the alliance via Twitter, the blockade in the open pit continued after 1:00 am at night.
Hundreds of protesters had on Saturday partly violent breaches broken by police, it was eight policemen injured. The officials used pepper spray on their part. Police did not provide information on injured activists until late in the evening, as well as on the number of people detained. However, she reported on an attempted "prisoner release" in the open pit Jackerath.
Several hundred activists were able to gain access to lignite mines
According to the police, the end-of-range activists blocked the Hambach railway in the afternoon. Coal is transported away on the route. Another railway line (north-south) has been occupied since Friday evening. More than 6,000 activists were in the coal mining area on Saturday, according to a spokeswoman for the alliance.
Arson attack on pumping station?
As RWE announced, the company had initially stopped four out of six production units including excavators for safety reasons. At the edge of the Garzweiler open pit mine, unknown people set fire to the control cabinet of a pumping station run by the operator RWE. The police assume deliberate arson. It could not be ruled out that the fire was placed in connection with the climate demonstration, it said. People were not harmed.
Since lignite mining is a thorn in their side, the climate activists wanted to occupy the grounds of RWE
On Saturday morning, families and the elderly joined a protest march of the climate protection movement "Fridays For Future". The organizers spoke of 8000 participants in the trouble-free actions. The demonstrators called for a quick exit from the climate-damaging coal-fired power plant. The coal commission set up by the government reached 2038.
ust / se (dpa, afp, Twitter)
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