the swedish activist Greta Thunberg questioned the German Police for having detained her during a protest on the edge of an open-cast mine. “Climate protection is not a crime”he asserted in the last hours.
«Yesterday I was part of a group that peacefully protested once morest the expansion of a coal mine in Germany.“said the renowned environmentalist. Through her Twitter account, Thunberg added: “We were surrounded by the Police and later detained, but at night they released us.”
«Climate protection is not a climate“, stressed the 20-year-old. The arrest occurred while she was protesting with other demonstrators at the Garzweiler 2 coalfield, regarding nine kilometers from Lützerath.
Last Saturday, Greta Thunberg had described the expansion of the mine as “betrayal of present and future generations”, addressing the nearly 6,000 demonstrators who marched towards Lützerath. “Germany is one of the biggest polluters in the world and has to be held accountable,” he had said.
The claim had rebuttals in place at various points in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the west of the country. One of the nerve centers was the city of Duesseldorf, where dozens of activists glued themselves to a main street and a state government building.
Near Rommerskirchen, regarding 120 activists They occupied the tracks of the train that takes coal to a nearby power plant. Those who refused to leave the tracks were dragged away, just like the Swedish girl.
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