The last remaining activists barricaded in the German village of Lützerath, evicted for mining, have left this Monday the subway tunnel in which they had taken refuge, so that the police have definitively concluded work that began five days ago.
The village of Lützerath in western Germany, which has long since been abandoned by its inhabitants, is to serve as the base for an open-cast lignite mine. Two people were still in the area until Monday, trying to delay the demolition work as long as possible.
The operator, RWE, is confident that the demolition of the village will be completed shortly – between eight and ten more days – so that coal can be extracted from the subsoil from March or April onwards, according to statements to the newspaper ‘Rheinische Post’.
During the demolition work, a small hut erected in the protest camp and which was to be exhibited in the German Museum of Architecture has been destroyed.
In addition, RWE is now facing another group of activists who have occupied a bulldozer at the Hambach lignite mine, also in the North Rhine-Westphalia region. A total of four people had been on the large excavator since early Monday morning.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
