Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was hauled away and briefly detained on Tuesday during a protest near a German village being razed to make way for a coal mine expansion, police said. READ:
BERLIN, Germany – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was hauled away and briefly detained on Tuesday during a protest near a German village being razed to make way for a coal mine expansion, police said.
Images showed the activist, smiling and dressed in black, being picked up by police officers wearing helmets and then escorted to a waiting bus. The process took “several hours” as there were a large number of protesters, he said, without giving a precise figure.On Saturday, Thunberg joined thousands of demonstrators in a large-scale protest against the demolition of the hamlet, marching at the front of a procession.
Around 300 activists had occupied the village, staking out emptied buildings and constructing positions in the trees, to try to prevent the expansion of the adjacent Garzweiler open-cast coal mine.Luetzerath has been deserted for some time by its original inhabitants, as plans move forward to expand the open-cast mine, one of the largest in Europe, operated by energy firm RWE.
Protest planners accused authorities of “violence” after clashes between police and participants, which resulted in injuries on both sides.
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