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Demonstration: excavators and tracks: coal opponents continue protests

Demonstration: excavators and tracks: coal opponents continue protests

The last activists left Lützerath on Monday. Meanwhile, the protests continue elsewhere. In Inden and Neurath, activists occupy excavators and tracks. In Cologne they block the traffic.

After the eviction of Lützerath, opponents of coal continued their protests in several places in North Rhine-Westphalia in the morning. A bucket-wheel excavator was manned in the Inden open-cast lignite mine and had to stop working as a result. The Aachen police spoke of around 20 activists involved, a spokesman for the energy company RWE of 30 to 40.

According to police and RWE information, a group of around 50 activists also occupied factory railway tracks to the Neurath power plant near Rommerskirchen. After they refused to leave the tracks, the protesters were carried away, a spokesman for the Aachen police reported. The “action ticker Lützerath” reported about 130 blockers on the coal railway at the Neurath power plant. Violent clashes were initially not known at any protest site.

In Cologne, climate activists who were glued to the ground massively brought commuter traffic to a standstill with a blockade action. They sat across a street and held up a banner that indicated the Last Generation group. Yellow crosses could also be seen – the protest symbols against the demolition of Lützerath.

According to the police, the access roads were blocked and traffic was guided past. Three people were stuck on the street, three had already been carried away, a police spokeswoman said in the morning. A dpa photographer reported a traffic jam and angry comments from drivers towards the activists.

The Last Generation group tweeted a photo from Cologne and declared: “The coal under #Lützerath has to stay in the ground!”

The police forces prepared themselves for several spontaneous, decentralized actions. The action alliance “Lützerath Unräumbar”, which also includes groups from Fridays For Future and Last Generation, had previously called for a joint day of action today.

Source: Stern

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