Thunberg joined thousands protesting the demolition of an abandoned village to make way for an expansion to the Garzweiler coal mine.
Thunberg, a self-proclaimed Swedish"autistic climate justice advocate," joined thousands of demonstrators who showed up Saturday to protest the clearance of the hamlet of Luetzerath, walking through the nearby village of Keyenberg and past muddy fields in western Germany.
Police cleared people out of farm buildings, the few remaining houses and a few dozen makeshift constructions such as tree houses. There were standoffs with police as some protesters tried to reach the village, which is now fenced off, and the mine. The Greens' leaders argue that the deal fulfils many of the environmentalists’ demands and saved five other villages from demolition and that Luetzerath is the wrong symbol for protests.
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