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The face-to-face was tense. Between police and anti-coal demonstrators, the repression is violent. On the huge site which houses the largest open-pit mine in Germany, 35,000 people, according to the organizers, gathered. The goal: to protest against the extension that would eliminate the neighboring village, Lützerath. Leading the procession was Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.
The German police have been trying for several days to evacuate the few militants occupying the site. This government project could ensure energy security for the country, which has been deprived of Russian gas supplies on which it depended.