The RWE Group has not filed a complaint and the police do not know who the two men are. They had dug under the hamlet of Lützerath, which was to make way for opencast mining. Her hiding place is now closed.
There will be no criminal consequences for the two tunnel occupiers from Lützerath: According to the Aachen police, the RWE Group has not filed a complaint against the men. The police therefore do not know the identity of the activists, who called themselves “Pinky” and “Brain”.
According to information from the German Press Agency, the tunnel in which the two had stayed for days has now been closed. It will disappear in the course of lignite mining.
the mirror had reported with reference to an internal police document that RWE had promised the activists not to report them – if they came out of the tunnel voluntarily. The tunnel occupants had therefore demanded that they be allowed to leave Lützerath masked, without the police taking their personal details and fingerprints. That’s what happened in the end.
During the evacuation of Lützerath, it was not the police who negotiated with “Pinky” and “Brain”, but RWE – supported by the Swiss consulting firm Schranner Negotiation Institute, whose founder Matthias Schranner was trained by the FBI, among other things, to negotiate with hostage-takers. Forcing her out of the tunnel would have been dangerous.
Lützerath was cleared two weeks ago in a day-long police operation against the resistance of hundreds of climate activists who had holed up there. The energy company RWE wants to mine lignite there. The Aachen police presented the final balance sheet for the operation in Lützerath on Wednesday. 372 people left the village “peacefully and voluntarily”. A further 159 that were brought out “had to be identified as part of police measures”. A total of 531 activists were in Lützerath at the beginning of the eviction. The AfD has meanwhile made a small inquiry about the costs of the police operation in the Düsseldorf state parliament. The state government has four weeks to respond.