Police wipe out 'brown coal forest' at Hambach
kerpen September 13, 2018 17:32The police of North Rhine-Westphalia have started with the deployment of many troops to clear the 'brown coal forest' at Hambach, between Kerkrade and Cologne. Environmentalists have occupied the site for years to prevent the RWE energy group from ruining the landscape for the sake of open mining. Special units took the first activists from the tree huts on Thursday and broke off structures that had been tolerated all along.