{"id":207133,"date":"2023-01-17T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=207133"},"modified":"2023-01-17T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T02:31:07","slug":"german-police-oust-climate-activists-after-clashes-near-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=207133","title":{"rendered":"German police oust climate activists after clashes near coal mine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/EUROPE0116.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BERLIN, <strong>Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of officers cleared around 300 activists from L\u00fctzerath in an operation that began on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say they removed activists waiting in treehouses, a day after clashes broke out between both sides but two people were still holding out in an underground tunnel at the site in western Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said that 35 &#8220;tree structures&#8221; and almost 30 wooden constructions had also been cleared away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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, stressing that burning the coal undermines Germany&#8217;s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The village is owned by energy firm RWE, and the last resident moved out over a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany has promised to phase out coal-fired power by 2030, bringing forward the date from 2038, and L\u00fctzerath is expected to be the final village to be swallowed up by the Garzweiler lignite mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions between police and climate protesters escalated on Saturday, with officers using water cannon and batons to disperse the activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 20 protesters were injured and taken to hospital, according to a medic with the activist group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;s clashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The climate organisers said around 35,000 protesters demonstrated on Saturday, while police officials put the figure at around 15,000. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; 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 L\u00fctzerath in an operation that began on Wednesday. Police say they removed activists waiting in treehouses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207135,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207133\/revisions\/207135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}