Last activists leave hamlet at heart of German coal protest
By FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — 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. The activists had remained inside a self-dug tunnel for days hoping 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 on Monday, with activists chaining themselves to a giant digger at another nearby mine and others abseiling from a bridge to block access to the village, which has become a flashpoint of protests in the past week.
