Greta Thunberg is kidnapped by the police at the German min protest

Von Sophie Müller

Berlin (AP)-the police in West Germany brought the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other demonstrators on Tuesday from the edge of a coal changer, where they demonstrated against the continued destruction of a village to expand the mine, German news agency dpa reports.

Thunberg belonged to hundreds of people who were one day after the last two climate activists who had hidden in a tunnel under the village of Lützerath, the anti-mining protests in several locations in the West German state of North Rhine-Westphalia were hidden. record.

Last year, the German government reached an agreement with the energy company RWE, which allows him to destroy the village in return for the termination of carbon use instead of 2038. Both argue that the coal is needed to ensure Germany's energy security, which is affected by the reduction of care, Russian gas due to the war in Ukraine.

but environmentalists say that the planning of Luetzerath will lead to enormous greenhouse gas emissions. Germany is expected to miss its ambitious climate targets for the second year in a row.

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In the midst of the heated coal debate in Germany, the European Union on Tuesday has pushed a large clean-tech industry project onto its plans for a greener future, while the 27-nation block has the goal of climate-consuming until 2050 be.

elsewhere in West Germany, dozens of climate activists stuck on a main street in the German western city of Cologne and on a building of the state government in Düsseldorf. Near Rommerskirchen, a group of around 120 activists also occupied the Kohlenbahn tracks to the Neurath power plant, according to the police and RWE.

Anyone who refused to leave the tracks has been removed, reported dpa.

In addition, several people occupied a huge excavator on the colliery, while hundreds of other demonstrators joined a demonstration train at Lützerath. The village itself has been evacuated and sealed off by the police in the past few days.

Again there were some clashes with the police.

Several activists ran to Garzweiler opencast mine according to dpa. They stood on the edge of the open -cast mine, which has a sharp edge of the demolition. The police said it was dangerous and people were forbidden to stay there.

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Thunberg had traveled to West Germany to take part in weekend demonstrations against the expanded mine, and also took part in the protests near Lützerath on Tuesday. The police in nearby Aachen said that a group of around 50 demonstrators had come dangerously close to the edge of the mine and did not want to go despite the request.

All people in this group had to be carried away from the edge of the mine and then temporarily stated in order to determine their identity, the police said. Photos from the crime scene showed that Thunberg was one of them, the officials took with them.

A demonstrator could have entered the mine, said RWE and called the step "very ruthless", said dpa.

A police spokesman who, as usual in Germany, said on the condition of anonymity, he should not reveal any details about Thunberg or other people who would have participated in the protest.

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police and RWE began on January 11 with the evacuation of demonstrators from Lützerath, removed roadblocks, wooden tree houses and planned buildings.

activists have been referring to the symbolic meaning of Lützerath for years, and thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday against the demolition of the village by RWE for the expansion of the Garzweiler.

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Source: Apnews