Last activists leave hamlet at heart of German coal protest
Germany's dpa news agency is reporting that the last two climate activists holed up beneath a village due to be destroyed for a nearby coal mine left the site BERLIN -- The last two climate activists holed up beneath a German village due to be destroyed for the expansion of a nearby coal mine left the site on Monday, the dpa news agency reported. The activists had remained inside a self-dug tunnel for days in a bid to prevent heavy equipment from being brought in to bulldoze the hamlet of Luetzerath, west of Cologne. Meanwhile, anti-coal protests continued in the region, with activists chaining themselves to a giant digger at another nearby mine and others abseiling from a bridge to block access to Luetzerath. The village has become a flashpoint of protest s in the past week. Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday against the razing of the village by RWE for the expansion of the Garzweiler coal mine. Police and RWE began evicting activists Wednesday from Luetzerath, removing...