It has rained and rained, the ground is soft: conditions in the occupied lignite town of Lützerath are tough. The police have increased their presence on site and the evacuation is underway. However, climate activists want to prevent this. The utopia ticker.
11:42am: Local police stressed that if the activists did not voluntarily leave the premises, they should “expect the direct use of force”.
11:25am: Fridays for Future activist Luisa Neubauer criticizes the actions of the police in Lützerath again. In the current issue of the Zeit newspaper, you say: “The police officers tried to break the peaceful chains of the activists.” And again: “People were thrown to the ground.” The “sheer number” of police officers was a “provocation” and was disproportionate, according to Neubauer.
Police vehicle moves with excavator shovel
11:20: On Wednesday, the administrative court in Aachen rejected two further urgent applications against the ban on staying in the lignite city of Lützerath. As in the previous week, the court classified the corresponding general decree of the Heinsberg district as “probably legitimate”, the court announced on Wednesday. The legal basis is police and regulatory law.
11:10am: According to the Twitter account “Aktionsticker Lützerath”, the police have now started to “clean up the ground”. The image shows a police vehicle with an excavator shovel. The blockade of access to the Jackerath open pit mine was also lifted by police after more than an hour.
Spokesperson for alleged police violence: “There is no information available”
10:37am: When asked about the alleged police violence, a spokeswoman said, according to Spiegel: “We are not aware of it.” Sometimes we talk about punching climate activists. According to WDR, police are meanwhile removing concrete posts and barricades with jackhammers and welders.
10:00: At the same time, the situation on site is “static”. There would be repeated announcements that police would give activists “15 more minutes” to voluntarily leave. The first protesters apparently follow instructions and leave the site. “You can now leave the area here without further consequences for you,” police said in a loudspeaker announcement.
9:40 am: To the spiegel second the first barricades are burning in Lützerath.
Violence against climate activists?
9:22am: The federal spokesman for the Green Youth, Timon Dzienus, reports that the police would have broken the first human chains with “massive forces, punches and kicks”.
The police report pyrotechnics and Molotov cocktails
9:10 am: The NRW Police confirmed this on Twitter. Fireworks are also to be used against police officers.
Clashes between activists and emergency services
9:05am: The Garzweiler lignite open pit mine site is currently occupied by hundreds of climate activists. Again wdr extension writes, police advance to Lützerath. The NRW police said on Twitter that they would “change the location of Lützerath”. There are the first scuffles between activists and emergency services. According to a WDR reporter, the first activists are being taken away, stones are said to have flown.
9:03am: Fridays for Future is also protesting the eviction. However, he also called for a peaceful demonstration in advance.
Wednesday 11 January, 9:00: The large-scale operation to clear the lignite village in Lützerath has begun. The energy company RWE had previously announced that it would start “dismantling” the Rhenish lignite city of Lützerath on Wednesday.
“As one of the first measures, a mile-long construction fence will be erected for security reasons,” the group said in the morning. “It marks the company’s construction site, where the remaining buildings, ancillary structures, roads and canals of the former settlement will be dismantled in the coming weeks. Trees and bushes will also be removed.”
In the video: flaming atmosphere in Lützerath
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