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Once again, a failed asylum seeker raped a young German girl. The anger in some of our eastern neighbors about criminal foreigners is increasing.

In Berlin, yesterday, the leaders of the new government were presented. But in the meantime it is bubbling under the surface, in the German province. There the protest against Chancellor Merkel and her ministers is organized by right-wing activists.

The occupation of a lignite mine and the supply route to the nearby power station in the German Lausitz region, near the border with Poland, is already a big success. That says a spokeswoman Ike Teuling Milieudefensie. The action will no longer lignite supplied the plant Vattenfall, causing energy production already declined sharply. Teuling expects the central this Sunday will stop altogether.

Environmentalists have sat trains with coal for a power plant at Cottbus in eastern Germany held back by occupying the tracks.

Thousands of climate activists from different countries have shut down in the German Lausitz region, south of Berlin, a lignite mine of energy company Vattenfall. Among them are 150 activists from the Netherlands, spokeswoman Ike Teuling Milieudefensie reported Saturday.