The lignite village of Lützerath is to be evacuated. NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul is counting on a large-scale police operation – and will probably have to endure less criticism from the Greens this time.
They occupy excavators, set up barricades and protest for the preservation of a village that has long been doomed. In Lützerath, west of Cologne, climate activists want to prevent the now uninhabited place from being excavated for the lignite underneath. It is a fight against the inertia of the fossil world. But one that the activists will probably lose. Also because of him.