DÜSSELDORF (GERMANY), 17 Jan. (DPA/EP) –
Climate activists have announced that they will continue their protests calling for the stoppage of the expansion of an open-pit coal mine in the mining town of Lützerath, in Germany, a day after the authorities to all the people who had entered the town to stop the works.
The action alliance ‘Lützerath Unräumbar’, which translates as “Lützerath Impossible to Clarify”, which includes groups from Fridays for Future and Last Generation, has called for a joint action day.
“Every minute that the excavator is running and coal is burned, the climate catastrophe is being fueled even more. As an alliance ‘Lützerath Unräumbar’ we oppose the destruction,” they have stated in a statement published on their website, although they have not given details of the planned protests.
“We assume that there will be actions,” the Police have detailed, warning of new actions such as the one that has paralyzed the expansion of an open-cast coal mine for days.
On Monday, according to the German energy company RWE, which owns the site, the last activists, who had been entrenched in a tunnel under the town for days, left the area, which has since been fenced off.
Meanwhile, the town of Lützerath itself, which has become a symbol of the struggle, has been demolished, according to the German agency DPA.
