German authorities reportedly detained climate change activist Greta Thunberg over the weekend at the site of a coal mine expansion project that will raze the village of Lützerath.
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Footage from the weekend showed police forcibly removing Thunberg and other activists from the site.
Die Polizeigewalt heute in #Lützertah war unfassbar.
Hier werden @GretaThunberg @Luisamneubauer und andere von der Polizei geschubst – und die stehen da einfach nur friedlich rum.
Was soll das @Polizei_NRW_AC?! pic.twitter.com/1uBuejL00W— Timon Dzienus (@Dzienus) January 14, 2023
ALN-affiliate America News Nation reported on the controversy involving Lützerath:
For more than two years, climate activists have been squatting in the village in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia to oppose its destruction to make way for an enlargement of the Garzweiler coal mine.
On Saturday, Thunberg joined them, addressing a massive crowd in the fields near Lützerath that the German government’s compromise arrangement with the coal mine’s owner was “shameful.”
“The most affected people are clear, the science is clear, we need to keep the carbon in the ground. When governments and corporations are acting like this, are actively destroying the environment, putting countless people at risk, the people step up.” Thunberg said during the march.
According to The Hill, the weekend clashes injured nine activists and more than 70 police officers.