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Police operation in a protest camp
Source: dpa / dpa / picture-alliance
The alliance of action "End of Field" had installed tents on a former sports field
rePolice cleared a camp of lignite miner demonstrators near the Hambach Forest. Police have dissolved the blockade of seats on a former sports field in Kerpen-Manheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, and have taken dozens of activists, as reported Thursday Aachen police at during the night. Among the 109 activists, the personal details were found, they are threatened with an intrusion trial.
The campaign alliance "Ende Gelände" erected a tent camp on the site of the energy company RWE. "The construction of this camp is illegal," police said. RWE filed a criminal complaint.
Police first called on activists on Wednesday to voluntarily leave the area, a police spokeswoman said. However, only about one-third of the activists did it. Police with several hundred IDPs then moved to the camp.
"Several dozen people resisted after being forced by plainclothes police to leave their seats and then leave the scene," police said. "The police carried out re-identification measures of 109 people and were released overnight, all of whom were sent pending trial for breaking the law."
When deported, the police spokeswoman said the action was "generally peaceful". A policeman was slightly injured during the operation, but was still fit to serve.
After the dissolution of the blockade, the police removed the tents from the activists. The subsequent security of the site must be badumed by RWE. Representatives of the "end of the field" alliance of action were initially not reachable for a phone statement.
Hambacher Forst, located between Aachen and Cologne, has become a symbol of environmentalists' struggle against coal-fired electricity generation.
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