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Police officers have surrounded a group of climate activists on the edge of the Garzweiler II opencast lignite mine.
Greta Thunberg can also be seen in the pictures.
Photo: Federico Gambarini / dpa
In recent clashes between demonstrators and police officers near Lützerath, officials used batons and pepper spray again.
This was confirmed by a police spokesman.
Horses are also used.
According to the police, people had previously left a demonstration and headed towards the Garzweiler opencast mine and the village of Lützerath.
This led to a confrontation with the police.
According to the observations of a dpa photographer, the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg also belongs to the group of demonstrators who were surrounded by the police near Lützerath.
Together with about 60 to 70 other people, she was sitting near the edge of the Garzweiler lignite opencast mine.
Police officers surrounded the group.
The opencast lignite mine has a sharp edge, staying there is forbidden.
Lützerath is also sealed off.
The village was cleared by the police in the past few days and is to be dredged to extract coal.
RWE: A person in the opencast lignite mine
According to the energy company RWE, one person also got into the opencast lignite mine.
"Of course it's grossly reckless what he's doing there," said an RWE spokesman.
The person is standing on a “kind of landing” in the embankment.
The "Aachener Zeitung" had reported.
On Tuesday, the Swedish climate activist Thunberg surprisingly took part in the climate protection demonstration that had started in Keyenberg near Lützerath, as the dpa photographer reported.
A Thunberg spokesman said on request that the 20-year-old was still in the region and would "participate in various activities".
Thunberg had repeatedly appeared in and around Lützerath in the past few days.
Among other things, she took part in a rally on Saturday.
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