Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested on Sunday by the police in Lützerath, during a demonstration once morest the extension of a coal mine in Germany, reports the German daily Bild.
She was escorted out of the protest by two police officers, but was not seen handcuffed. Greta Thunberg was among many protesters who took to the site on Saturday. She had returned on Sunday and was among the last protesters to be evacuated from the site. Police said on Sunday they had almost finished evacuating climate activists from a German village ordered to be destroyed to make way for a coal mine expansion, with both sides accusing each other of violence . In an operation that began on Wednesday, hundreds of law enforcement officers cleared around 300 militants from the western German hamlet of Lützerath. The evacuation of these people was initially supposed to last for weeks, but the police said on Sunday that only two of them remained in this village, holed up in an underground.
This place, which has become a symbol of resistance to fossil fuels, had attracted thousands of protesters on Saturday, including Greta Thunberg. The organizers of the movement claimed that 35,000 people had gathered there, while the police estimated their number at 15,000. These protested once morest the extension of an open pit lignite mine and therefore the disappearance of Lützerath, in the Rhine basin, between Düsseldorf and Cologne, supporting the militants who occupied the site.
