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NRW: Activists occupy a bucket wheel excavator in the Inden opencast lignite mine
Photo: Federico Gambarini / dpa
After the eviction of Lützerath, coal opponents have continued their protests in several places in North Rhine-Westphalia.
A bucket-wheel excavator was manned in the Inden open-cast lignite mine and had to stop working as a result.
The Aachen police spoke of around 20 activists involved, a spokesman for the energy company RWE of 30 to 40.
According to police and RWE information, a group of around 50 activists also occupied factory railway tracks to the Neurath power plant near Rommerskirchen.
After they refused to leave the tracks, the protesters were carried away, a spokesman for the Aachen police reported.
The "action ticker Lützerath" reported about 130 blockers on the coal railway at the Neurath power plant.
Violent clashes were initially not known at any protest site.
'There's no coal train here today.
We stand in the way of destruction with our bodies," tweeted the alliance "Ende Gelände" over a photo of activists in white body suits on train tracks.
»Climate protection remains manual work!«
The police forces prepared themselves for several spontaneous, decentralized actions.
The action alliance "Lützerath Unräumbar", which also includes groups from Fridays For Future and Last Generation, had previously called for a joint day of action on Tuesday.
Glued climate activists in Cologne
Glued climate activists massively brought the rush-hour traffic in Cologne to a standstill with a blockade in the morning.
They sat across a street and held up a banner that indicated the Last Generation group.
Yellow crosses could also be seen - the protest symbols against the demolition of Lützerath.
According to the police, the access roads were blocked and traffic was guided past.
Three people were stuck on the street, three had already been carried away, a police spokeswoman said in the morning.
A dpa photographer reported a traffic jam and angry comments from drivers towards the activists.
The "Last Generation" group tweeted a photo from Cologne and declared: "The coal under #Lützerath has to stay in the ground!"
Protests in front of the NRW state representation
In addition, according to their own statements, scientists from "Scientist Rebellion" and activists from "Extinction Rebellion" have been blocking the entrance to the state representation of North Rhine-Westphalia in Berlin since the morning to protest against the eviction of Lützerath.
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