Image from Lützerath causes malice: "garbage dump" - what's really behind it
Created: 01/14/2023, 18:51
By: Peter Seven
Lützerath at the Garzweiler opencast mine is a symbol for climate activists.
The village is currently being illegally occupied.
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Pictures are circulating on social media that allegedly show heaps of rubbish in occupied Lützerath.
But the recordings are fake.
Erkelenz – The aerial photo shows Lützerath from above: the two new photovoltaic systems have just been installed, the squatter camp has electricity again after RWE disconnected the small hamlet from the grid as part of the demolition work.
The picture is currently doing the rounds on social media, a current tweet, for example, is displayed tens of thousands of times and shared dozens of times.
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Lützerath: "Looks like a garbage dump"
Many of the comments below have the same thrust, reports 24RHEIN: It's about garbage that can supposedly be seen on the site.
"Heaps of dirt everywhere," writes one user.
"Looks like a dump," writes another.
There are hundreds of comments of this kind. Numerous commentators also post alleged interior views from the village, showing filthy rooms and mountains of rubbish.
Because the picture is currently being shared so often, we report about it here.
Did the climate activists really litter Lützerath?
Alleged "garbage dump" in Lützerath: "These are building materials"
A visit to the site shows that the pictures that allegedly show Lützerath from the inside are fake and definitely not taken there.
The aerial view, on the other hand, is authentic.
On it you can see: the huts, tree houses and tents of the squatters and various individual parts in between.
"It's not garbage, it's building materials.
We are always improving buildings and have just installed two photovoltaic systems," said a spokeswoman from the camp.
Lützerath squatters do not respond to comments
Many of the comments have an aggressive undertone.
The spokeswoman said she could not explain why that was.
“Some people seem to have something against our protest.
But in general, some people just get angry very easily on social media.
It's hard to make sense of it." In any case, you wouldn't react to such comments, it wasn't worth it.
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Lützerath is to be cleared in January
Between 80 and 150 people - sometimes more, sometimes fewer - illegally occupy the village of Lützerath to save it from being demolished by RWE.
The energy company wants to excavate the coal under the town.
RWE got the green light from the NRW state government to demolish the place: In the course of the early NRW coal exit in 2030, the state, federal government and RWE had agreed that the villages of Kuckum, Keyenberg, Oberwestrich, Unterwestrich and Berverath would not be destroyed after all - But Lützerath should give way.
The
Lützerath eviction
is scheduled to start in mid-January, police officers and activists are already facing each other in the hamlet at the Garzweiler opencast mine and the first scuffles and arrests occur.
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