Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was removed Sunday by police along with other protesters as they demonstrated against the razing of the German village of Lützerath for the expansion of a coal mine.
Thunberg did not comply with a police request to leave the area, prompting officers to physically escort her away, German media outlet Bild reported. Thunberg was among a group of activists still at the site on Sunday, the newspaper said.
Climate activists have been squatting in the village in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia for more than two years to protest its demolition to accommodate an extension of the Garzweiler coal mine.
Thunberg joined them on Saturday, telling a large rally in the fields outside Lützerath that the German government’s compromise deal with the owner of the coal mine was “shameful.”
According to the police, nine activists were taken to the hospital, Bild reported. More than 70 police officers have been injured in the operation to clear demonstrators from the site, the newspaper said.
