Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has defended a day after being evicted from a protest camp in western Germany that «climate protection is not a crime.»
Thunberg was arrested while taking part in a protest against the demolition of the village of Lützerath, where hundreds of people have been gathering for several days to prevent the expansion of an open-cast coal mine.
Around 70 protesters sat down on the edge of the Garzweiler coal mine, to which the police responded by first surrounding and then holding them back. Among them was Thunberg, who joined the protests on Saturday.
«Yesterday I was part of a group peacefully protesting against the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. We were surrounded by police and detained, but were let go that afternoon,» she has explained on Twitter, in his first reaction after the incident.
The village of Lützerath, in western Germany and long abandoned by its inhabitants, was still occupied until Sunday afternoon by a small number of activists opposed to the expansion of coal mining in the area by energy company RWE.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
