Climate activists occupy giant digger at German coal mine

BERLIN: Climate activists have occupied a giant digger at a coal mine in western Germany to protest the destruction of a nearby village for the expansion of a separate mine.

Anti-coal group Ende Gelaende wrote on Mastodon that a second group of activists had climbed onto a bridge to block access to the village of Luetzerath, which has become a flashpoint of protests in the past week.Saturday against the razing of the village by RWE for the expansion of the Garzweiler coal mine, which is about 20 kilometres north of Hambach.

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