Special envoy to Lützerath
Soon, in the evening, Tim will no longer hoist himself up to his fixed ropes to go to bed in his wooden house perched in the trees, eleven meters away, which he has occupied for a year with five of his comrades.
For the moment, in the morning, from his two windows cut between the logs, lulled by the breath of the wind, the 27-year-old young man observes the foliage and the birds, located within reach and, less than a kilometer , the gigantic open-pit coal mine which in a few months will engulf its chlorophyll landscape.
In the name of German energy interests, complicated by the war waged by Russia in Ukraine, the small village of Lützerath, not far from Aachen, lives its last hours.
And the hundred environmental activists who occupy it - its real inhabitants left it two years ago - cannot accept it.
The Rhineland-Westphalia hamlet has become a rallying point for Germany's radical environmental movement, attracting…
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