Around 6,000 protesters, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, marched through a German village Saturday, according to a police estimate, demonstrating against the expansion of an opencast lignite mine.
The clearing of the village in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia was agreed between RWE and the government in a deal that allowed the energy giant toin exchange for its faster exit from coal and saving five villages originally slated for destruction.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg at a protest march over the pending razing of the settlement of Luetzerath Germany on Saturday.As the protesters neared the village, they were confronted by police in riot gear, and some used batons to push the protesters back. On Saturday, only few remained camping out in treehouses and an underground tunnel, but thousands turned up to protest against the mine, which activists say symbolisesThe president of North Rhine-Westphalia told German radio Deutschlandfunk on Saturday that energy politics was “not always pretty” but that the coal was needed more than ever in light of the energy crisis confronting Europe’s biggest economy.
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