Police officers detain climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, January 17, during a protest against the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany's utility RWE to Luetzerath, in Germany. Photos by Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters READ:
LUETZERATH, Germany – Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was detained alongside other activists on Tuesday, January 17, during protests against the demolition of a village to make way for a coal mine expansion but was released after an identity check, according to police.
The village in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia is being cleared to allow for the expansion of the mine. The mine’s owner, RWE, agreed with the government that it could demolish Luetzerath in exchange for its faster exit from coal and the saving of five villages originally slated for destruction.
Riot police backed by bulldozers removed activists from buildings in the abandoned village last week, with only a few left in trees and an underground tunnel by last weekend, but protesters including Thunberg remained at the site staging a sit-in into Tuesday. “Greta Thunberg was part of a group of activists who rushed towards the ledge. However, she was then stopped and carried by us with this group out of the immediate danger area to establish their identity,” a spokesperson for Aachen police told Reuters, adding that one activist had jumped into the mine.
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