The German police performed seventeen arrests on Friday in the 'brown coal forest' near Hambach, between Kerkrade and Cologne. Here, environmentalists are trying to prevent energy group RWE from cutting down the forest to win brown coal. There are ancient trees in the forest.
The 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.
The tension between law enforcement and environmental activists due to the planned harvesting of the 'brown coal forest' at Hambach (Germany) is running out. The police of North Rhine-Westphalia have designated the area in question Friday as 'dangerous place' where people can be arrested for control without any reason. Those who can not identify can be held for twelve hours.
The train traffic between the Limburgs Landgraaf and Haanrade (Kerkrade) runs more slowly than usual on Sunday evening. People walk on or off the track and that's dangerous. And in Veenendaal, cows run along the rails so that's not how the trains run so fast. The railroad driver of ProRail will tell you on Twitter.
In Kerkrade on Sunday a body found in a pond. Around 21:00 the corpse was discovered near Castle Erenstein.
The 57-year-old man from Kerkrade almost two years ago by members of Bandidos motorcycle lap, was acquitted of all legal proceedings. He acted in self-defense, the Limburg court ruled Friday.
The municipality of Kerkrade start an integrity investigation VVD alderman Dion Schneider. Following is an affair that he started with the head of the Department of real estate and land development.
Killings, attacks and abductions. More than twenty years, Germany was in the grip of the radical left-wing terrorism of the Red Army Faction (RAF). Their armed resistance against the 'imperial system' took more than thirty people died, among them senior figures from business and politics.
The theft at Pinkpop where Kerkrade CDA councilor Mark Meijer is involved, seems much larger than he claims himself.
