Previously, AFP journalists had been witnesses of clashes between groups of protesters and security forces, against which fireworks and stones were thrown, according to local media. In television pictures, a line of policemen in riot gear guarded the edges of the moattens of meters deep, which the protesters were approaching.
A journalist from the AFP saw a young man wounded in the head. In the background, ambulance sirens could be heard. “There are wounded on both sides, but we still don’t know how many,” a police spokesman told AFP.
The collective Lützerath lebt! (Lützerath lives!) mentioned dozens of injured among the activists, due to dog bites and water cannons. At least 20 activists were taken to hospital, said Birte Schramm, an aid worker for the movement occupying the town. Schramm specified that some of them they were “beaten by the police in the stomach and on the head” and that they suffered from wounds that they could “put their lives in danger”. Protesters they dispersed in small groups across the fields around the mine, under torrential rain.
“Some people have entered the mine. Get out of the danger zone immediately!”the police tweeted. The security forces also protected the access to the municipality of Lützerathclosed with bars and occupied by several dozen activists who were being evacuated by law enforcement for several days.
The march was organized in support of the activists occupying the siteabandoned, and was symbolically led by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. As planned, the Lützerath site, situated in the Rhine basin between Düsseldorf and Cologne, it will disappear so that the lignite mine operated by the German energy company RWE can be expanded.
“It is a shame that the German government reaches agreements and compromises with companies like RWE”Thunberg declared from a rostrum. “Lützerath’s coal must remain in the ground,” he told the protesters, calling not to sacrifice climate at the cost of “short-term growth and corporate greed”.
The security forces had resumed work to dismantle the camp early in the morning.. On Friday night, they were staying at the site between 20 and 40 activists, according to a spokesman for the movement told AFP. The evacuation operation, which began this week, mobilized police reinforcements from all over Germany. Until now, about 470 militants were evacuated from the placeaccording to the German press, which cited the police.
The movement was supported by protest actions across the country. On Friday, masked activists set fire to containers and painted slogans at the Greens’ offices in Berlin.. The party, which is part of the ruling coalition in Germany with the Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the liberal FDP, He is the subject of harsh criticism from certain activists who accuse him of treason for having signed a commitment with RWE which makes it possible to destroy Lützerath, whose inhabitants were expropriated several years ago.
The German Executive considers the extension of the mine necessary to guarantee the Germany energy security after the interruption of the supply of Russian gas. The plan’s detractors They reject this argument and argue that current lignite reserves are sufficient.
Source: Ambito
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