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A mass in Cologne Cathedral (symbol picture)
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Climate activists from the group "Extinction Rebellion" disrupted a mass in Cologne Cathedral with a protest on Thursday evening.
Twelve men and women wanted to draw attention to the destruction of the environment with banners and loudspeakers and lay down in the aisle of the church before the start of the service led by an auxiliary bishop, said a spokeswoman for the Cologne police on Friday morning at the request of the German press agency.
The repeated requests of the church employees to leave the cathedral, they did not comply.
Two Swiss cathedral people injured their backs slightly
The Bochum group from "Extinction Rebellion" shared pictures of the action on Twitter and wrote that they wanted to draw attention to the fact that "people are exploiting the planet until it is unusable, demolishing villages and churches in order to dig fossil fuels out of the earth."
Dom Swiss - that's the name of the overseers in the cathedral - would have tried to carry the troublemakers who did not resist out of the church, said the police of the dpa.
Two of the cathedral Swiss were slightly injured.
Rescue workers treated the two on the back, it said.
The "Kölner Stadtanzeiger" published a video showing how a Swiss resident tries to drag an activist down the aisle.
The called police are investigating trespassing and wrote criminal charges against the twelve activists.
"A violation of the assembly law must also be checked," said the police spokeswoman for the dpa.
According to the police, there were no arrests.
has / dpa