Two days after the climate activist Greta Thunberg was deported by the police, the same thing happened again.
It shows photos taken and disseminated by the news agency AP on Tuesday evening. The last time Greta Thunberg was expelled was on Sunday.
Thousands of young protesters from all over Europe have gathered for the climate fight in the German village of Lüzerath, which is at risk of being razed to the ground due to coal mining.
The organizations themselves estimate that around 35,000 demonstrators were in the village then, but the demonstrations already began last Wednesday. At the weekend, the mobilization for a new, large action started on Tuesday.
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On Sunday evening, Jonas Kittelsen, spokesperson for the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion in Norway, decided to travel down himself. In addition, three people from Nature and Youth have traveled to the German village.
– Then it felt like a duty to stand up – against coal in Europe, and all fossil fuels in general, he says to VG.
When we speak to him on the phone on Tuesday morning, he is surrounded by police officers along with many other activists who have turned up from all over Europe. They have been stopped.
– Right now I am 500 meters away from Lüzerath – the village by the coal mine which they are going to raze to the ground in order to take the coal resources that lie under the town, he tells VG.
Kittelsen shares this video taken by another climate activist on the scene from when he broke away from the demonstrations and ran towards the mines on Tuesday:
He estimates that several hundred police officers have turned up to control the demonstrators who have turned up in protest against the extraction plans – and in solidarity with the village. The majority of climate activists are from Germany, but there are people from all over Europe, and from Africa.
– If we are to start with coal in Europe, it will not go well. And it is in the global south that they feel climate change the most, says Kittelsen.
The police carry batons and have used tear gas against them, he says.
– Ende Gelände has sent an activist group into the area, where they have latched onto the giant excavators. A group has also locked onto the train tracks, he says.
Kittelsen believes that these protesters will be expelled, but that he himself and those he is with will be allowed to go free if they walk out peacefully.
