Posted on Jan 18, 2023
Greta Thunberg was detained by German police while protesting a coal mine expansion
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly detained Tuesday by police at a protest over the controversial expansion of a western Germany coal mine that has become a flashpoint for that country’s climate debate.
Protests at Lützerath, a tiny village slated to be cleared and demolished to make way for the nearby Garzweiler coal mine, have grown massive and contentious over the past week. At least 15,000 people demonstrated on Saturday.
That included Thunberg, 20, who has been among the world's most prominent climate protesters since she addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference as a teenager.
Thunberg had traveled to Germany this week to join the Lützerath demonstrations. On Tuesday, she was among a group of protesters carried away by police after they approached the edge of the mine, the German news agency dpa reported. She was released shortly after, according to Reuters.
Protests at Lützerath, a tiny village slated to be cleared and demolished to make way for the nearby Garzweiler coal mine, have grown massive and contentious over the past week. At least 15,000 people demonstrated on Saturday.
That included Thunberg, 20, who has been among the world's most prominent climate protesters since she addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference as a teenager.
Thunberg had traveled to Germany this week to join the Lützerath demonstrations. On Tuesday, she was among a group of protesters carried away by police after they approached the edge of the mine, the German news agency dpa reported. She was released shortly after, according to Reuters.
Greta Thunberg was detained by German police while protesting a coal mine expansion
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Posted 4 h ago
No sympathy here.
--- No one asked for it. Why would they? Did they pick you yet?
Posted 4 h ago
No sympathy here.
--- No one asked for it. Why would they? Did they pick you yet?
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
None from me...but you know Fuerhoff can't resist trying to pick a fight...that's why I blocked. I still don't know why we are listening to a child...when I was growing up a child did not enter an adults conversation unless you were spoken to. BUt we give creedence to this young lady and allow her to break the law and somehow we are supposed to have sympathy for her? Nope. The article doesn't state that but that is why they wrote it to show that a young girl activist was jailed hoping to get a response.
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