According to the police, the evacuation of Lützerath has ended.
But the protest continued unabated on Tuesday.
Activists occupy excavators in the Inden opencast mine.
The news ticker.
Protest actions
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continue: activists occupy excavators in the Inden opencast mine
After
demonstrations
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: Further actions planned for Tuesday
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Update from January 17, 11:40 a.m
.: "We will not stop until the last coal excavator has stopped, the last power plant has stopped and no more fossil raw materials are imported from the global south," said Charly Dietz, press representative for Anti-Kohlekraft
-Movement
"Ende Gelände" to
FR.de.
Lützerath demo: No "life-threatening injuries": activists correct statement
Update from January 17, 11:30 a.m
.: Police and activists clashed on the sidelines of the demo on Saturday.
There were injuries on both sides.
The activists accused the police of “systematic” violence.
There was information about this from an allegedly "life-threateningly injured" demonstrator during the evacuation of Lützerath.
The activists have retracted their own statement.
This is reported by the WDR and the
Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Florian Özcan, spokesman for the "Lützerath is alive" initiative, told the newspaper on Monday: "Fortunately, there are no life-threatening injuries." It's not about "presenting things worse than they were".
The demo paramedic passed on her subjective impression.
In addition, she did not have good diagnostic equipment at her disposal.
Demo paramedic Iza Hofmann spoke at a press conference on Sunday about severe police violence and that there were a "high two-digit to three-digit number" of injuries, including many seriously injured and there were some "life-threateningly injured people".
A statement by the alliance "Lützerath is alive" on Sunday after the PK already said: "There were two people whose injuries we had to assess preclinically according to all medical standards as potentially life-threatening." This assessment was based on the diagnostic options available in the hospital can be re-evaluated.
The Aachen police contradicted the statements of the activists on Sunday.
Climate activists block rails at the Neurath power plant
Update from January 17, 10:05 a.m
.: The energy company RWE confirms that the rails of the north-south railway (Rommerskirchen) are occupied, reports the WDR.
The Neurath coal-fired power plant is supplied with coal via this route, but the reserves are full.
According to RWE, power generation will continue.
Around 100 coal opponents would take part in the protest.
Protest actions by climate activists continue - activists occupy excavators in the Inden opencast mine
Update from January 17, 9:18 a.m .:
As expected, climate activists continued their protests in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) on Tuesday.
The coal opponents demonstrate in several places.
In the Inden opencast lignite mine, for example, a bucket wheel excavator had to stop working because it was hijacked by activists.
According to the Aachen police, there were 20 people, the energy company RWE spoke of 30 to 40. “Excavators and conveyor belts have been standing still for half an hour,” tweeted the “Aktionsticker Lützerath” before 8 a.m. above a photo with activists in white full-body suits.
At Rommerskirchen, a group of about 20 activists occupied industrial railway tracks that lead to the Neurath power station.
“There is no coal train here today.
We stand in the way of destruction with our bodies," the alliance "Ende Gelände" tweeted over a photo of activists in white body suits on train tracks.
"Climate protection remains manual work!"
After demonstrations and the eviction of Lützerath: Further actions are planned for Tuesday
First report from January 16, 2023
- Lützerath - The clearing of the Rhenish lignite village of Lützerath has ended, Greta Thunberg has left, the last two remaining demonstrators cleared the tunnels voluntarily.
For environmental activists, the chapter does not end there.
The protests continued on Monday.
The action alliance "Lützerath Unräumbar", which also includes groups from Fridays for Future and Last Generation, has also called for a day of action for Tuesday.
"We assume that there will be actions," said the police in Aachen.
“Every minute the excavator runs and coal is burned, the climate catastrophe continues to heat up.
As the "Lützerath Unräumbar" alliance, we stand in the way of destruction!", it said on the Internet.
However, the alliance did not give details of the planned actions.
The lignite village of Lützerath itself, which became a symbol of the struggle, has now been cleared.
According to RWE, the last activists who had holed up in a tunnel under the village for days left the now fenced-off site on Monday.
"The tunnel residents Pinky and Brain leave the #LütziTunnel themselves," said the climate activists in their action ticker on Twitter.
"A thousand thanks for your life-threatening efforts against lignite and capitalism, for Lützerath and a better world."
(jv/dpa)
