Lützerath evacuation is imminent: climate activists on alert
Created: 01/10/2023 20:01
By: Martina Lippl
Lützerath clearance: climate protection activists sit on a wooden pole on the outskirts of the village of Lützerath.
©Oliver Berg/dpa
The village of Lützerath at the Garzweiler opencast lignite mine is to be evacuated.
Climate activists want to prevent that.
The police are preparing for a “difficult large-scale operation”.
Lützerath
is about to be
evicted
: climate activists have occupied the abandoned village in North Rhine-Westphalia for months
The police
are concerned about an
escalation
of violence : Lützerath should not be evacuated before Wednesday (January 11).
Protests
in
Lützerath
: climate activists tie themselves to tripods
This
news ticker
on the
clearance of Lützerath
is updated regularly.
Erkelenz – The village of Lützerath in western North Rhine-Westphalia is deserted.
Original residents have looked for a new home.
Below him are 280 million tons of lignite.
The energy company RWE wants to excavate the coal there.
The land and the buildings belong to RWE.
Climate activists moved in months ago and occupied Lützerath.
The coal there has to stay in the ground, they demand.
Lützerath is about to be evicted: climate activists have occupied the abandoned village in North Rhine-Westphalia for months
Lützerath has become a symbol for the climate policy of the Federal Government and North Rhine-Westphalia.
There must be an earlier exit from coal, so the accusation.
Because, according to experts, it is almost impossible to meet the 1.5 degree target from the Paris climate agreement with the excavation.
The police are concerned about an escalation of violence: Lützerath should not be evacuated before Wednesday (January 11).
According to the police, the evacuation of Lützerath must be expected at any time.
The exact time is still open.
The Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia basically gave the green light on Tuesday (January 10).
The activists failed again in court in a dispute over a residence ban.
According to information from the police, the village should not be cleared before Wednesday (January 11).
The authorities want to provide information on Tuesday (January 10) together with Heinsberg district administrator Stephan Pusch in the city of Erkelenz, to which Lützerath belongs, about the use of the Garzweiler opencast mine.
Various groups are now demonstrating in Lützerath and the surrounding area.
A broad alliance has called for a large demonstration on Saturday (January 14).
Lützerath eviction is imminent: climate activists are sitting on so-called Tripos.
©Oliver Berg/dpa
Protests in Lützerath: Climate activists tie themselves to tripods
While the police are already clearing away barricades with excavators, activists continue to prepare for the eviction.
In the early hours of the morning they tied themselves to so-called tripods, reports WDR.
They would be surrounded by a human chain.
The police rounded her up.
The situation is "dynamic", tweets the action ticker Lützerath.
The police used pain grips and occasionally pepper spray.
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"It will be a challenging operation with many risks," police chief Dirk Weinspach said on Monday morning on WDR.
In the past week, the Lützerath protests remained mostly peaceful - but on Sunday it "escalated again for the first time".
Among other things, stones were flown.
"That's not a good sign at first," said Weinspach.
"I hope that won't happen again next week."
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