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Security forces in front of the main courtyard of Lützerath
Photo: Tobias Großekemper / DER SPIEGEL
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Live video stream from Lützerath by Reuters
RWE closes double fence around Lützerath
9.51 a.m .:
Only the gates are missing: the police continue to clear the lignite town of Lützerath.
The energy company RWE has already taken care of a construction that should keep unauthorized people out.
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In the morning, police officers enter the main courtyard
9.39 a.m .:
In the morning the police entered the main courtyard in Lützerath.
This is an old three-sided yard, on the open side of which a barricade of containers and caravans had been erected.
Hundreds of people were in the yard within a few minutes and then went into the building, some with the use of saws.
According to dpa, the officials sawed a hole in a gate and thus gained access.
A large yellow banner hangs on the farmstead with the inscription »1.5° C means: Lützerath stays!«.
Some activists who were inside were taken away.
A little later, the police drove a lifting platform to the courtyard of the homestead.
"The eviction continues," said a police spokesman.
Fireworks and police action at night
9.33 a.m .:
A dpa reporter reported that on Wednesday evening some firecrackers were thrown and fireworks rockets were ignited from an occupied building, nobody was injured.
Meanwhile, not far away, the police took a group of climate activists off a warehouse roof.
Elsewhere, police spent several hours overnight rescuing an activist from a wrecked car that had been set up to obstruct a path.
The woman had entrenched herself in the wreck and cemented her feet in the path.
She was retrieved early in the morning.
The night was calm but the weather was stormy
9:27 a.m .:
It was pretty quiet in Lützerath at night, according to the SPIEGEL reporters on site.
The squatters had withdrawn into the houses, tree houses and the remaining tripods and monopods and sat out the stormy night there.
Day 2 of the clearance of Lützerath begins
9.21 a.m .:
Day 2 in the evacuation of Lützerath.
In cold, wet weather and strong winds, climate activists are still holding out in tree houses and squats.
Other activists will probably not come because the hamlet is now surrounded by a fence.
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