Coal miners daughter? No: Greta Thunberg arrested for protesting coal miners

Lützerath: German police oust climate activists after clashes near coal mine (yahoo.com)

Lützerath: German police oust climate activists after clashes near coal mine
Emily McGarvey - BBC News

German police say they have removed almost all climate activists from a German village that will be destroyed to allow the expansion of a coal mine.

Hundreds of officers cleared around 300 activists from Lützerath in an operation that began on Wednesday.

Police say they removed activists waiting in treehouses, a day after clashes broke out between both sides.

Two people were still holding out in an underground tunnel at the site in western Germany, police added.

"There are no further activists in the village of Lützerath," police said, adding that the buildings at the site had been cleared by Friday.

Police said that 35 "tree structures" and almost 30 wooden constructions had also been cleared away.

Climate activists said that the village and others nearby should not be demolished and the coal under them, near an open-cast brown coal mine, should be left in the ground.

Activists say burning the coal undermines Germany's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The village is owned by energy firm RWE, and the last resident moved out over a year ago.

Germany has promised to phase out coal-fired power by 2030, bringing forward the date from 2038, and Lützerath is expected to be the final village to be swallowed up by the Garzweiler lignite mine.

RWE said the coal under the village would be needed as early as this winter.

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Tensions between police and climate protesters escalated on Saturday, with officers using water cannon and batons to disperse the activists.

Around 20 protesters were injured and taken to hospital, according to a medic with the activist group.

A police spokesman said around 70 officers had been injured since they began removing people from the site on Wednesday, with many of those officers injured during Saturday's clashes.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined the protest and denounced "police violence" in removing climate activists from the site.

The climate organisers said around 35,000 protesters demonstrated on Saturday, while police officials put the figure at around 15,000.

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Wow, that's a lot of protesters.

 

Black Sheep Coal Fired Pizza used to be right next door to me in downtown Saint Paul, but sadly they closed last year. It was quite good!

I did once bite into a lump of coal sitting on my takeout pizza order one time, which wasn't pleasant.

 

nevermind

 

She pulled a McLovin

 

the brutality is tough to watch

 

Kerry should attend these conferences via zoom instead of Jet. Until then, Greta is the real deal.

 

She should go protest in China.

 

Greta Thunberg: German police deny protest detainment was staged - BBC News

Greta Thunberg: German police deny protest detainment was staged

By Merlyn Thomas
Climate disinformation reporter

German police have denied being "extras for Greta Thunberg" after false claims that her detainment at a protest in western Germany was staged.

A viral post falsely claimed the climate activist being held by police was "all set up for the cameras".

Ms Thunberg and other activists were seeking to stop the abandoned village of Lützerath from being demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.

The video of her being removed by police has gained millions of views.

"We would never give ourselves to make such recordings," a spokesperson for local police told the BBC, denying allegations that Ms Thunberg's detainment was fake.

But it is important that the police enable reporting and guarantee the protection of media workers, they added.

The viral video shows the climate campaigner flanked by police officers on either side.

Meanwhile a few photographers can be seen snapping photos and moving around her, as Ms Thunberg smiles.

Several other police officers who were also standing nearby appear to be waiting with her before walking her away from the scene.

Some online have jumped onto these moments of officers and Ms Thunberg waiting around, to falsely claim that it is part of a staged photo opportunity.

However the interior ministry of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia told the BBC that the police officers and Ms Thunberg were waiting for logistical reasons.

"They had to wait for a couple of minutes before they could bring her to a certain police car," said the spokesperson.

They added that "the whole situation has been used by those with political motives and the real reason is entirely practical and mundane."
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LOL. Everyone could see what happened.

 

It turns out that people often see what they want to see.

 

they're still trying to sell this greta sham?