Police in riot gear have started to drag climate activists away from an abandoned village in western Germany they have occupied for months.
Protesters barricaded themselves in to prevent Lützerath from being swallowed up by the nearby Garzweiler open coal mine.
Some activists threw stones and pyrotechnics at police officers as they began to clear the camp.
Protesters climbed into treehouses to make the eviction more difficult.
Translation … The “peaceful activists” & the “evil police”. If it weren’t for the stones.
Die „friedlichen Aktivisten“ & die „böse Polizei“. Wären da die Steine nicht. #Lützerath pic.twitter.com/VjL7xz7Qva
— Julius Böhm (@julius__boehm) January 11, 2023
