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Police officers on Saturday in front of the largest wooden house in Lützerath: The construction is said to be occupied as before, it is one of the last self-built wooden huts that are currently still standing.
The police began clearing Lützerath on Wednesday morning.
Photo: Federico Gambarini / dpa
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Destroyed wooden huts and a few trees that are still standing surround the large wooden house.
After the police had cleared the smaller huts, they were dismantled by RWE employees.
Their remains are loaded into trailers with excavators and wheel loaders and driven away.
Photo: Lukas Eberle / DER SPIEGEL
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Even on day four of the eviction, activists are still in the tree houses and trees of Lützerath.
So they want to delay the eviction.
The police, for their part, tried to use climbers to persuade the squatters to give up or to get them out of the trees.
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Federico Gambarini / dpa
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While everyone was looking at Lützerath in the last few days, the environment is also important on Saturday.
Thousands of people are expected to demonstrate against the dumping of Lützerath, the police have prepared - the picture shows several police vans in front of the small town of Keyenberg.
Photo: IMAGO/Remko de Waal / IMAGO/ANP
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The central contact point for the Lützerath supporters was the so-called "Our All Camp" in Keyenberg near Lützerath.
Photo: Mitsuo Iwamoto / DER SPIEGEL
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Demonstrators walk through the village of Keyenberg on their way to a planned large-scale demonstration.
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IMAGO/Remko de Waal / IMAGO/ANP
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It is uncertain how many people will come to the demonstration.
The greatest concern of the police is probably that demonstrators want to get to Lützerath itself or to RWE's lignite open-cast mine.
Such announcements have already been made in the past few days.
Photo: Guido Schiefer / epd
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Demonstrators on a hill near Lützerath: Anger at the energy company RWE, as well as anger at political decisions
Photo: IMAGO/Remko de Waal / IMAGO/ANP