Ende Gelaende 2018 - Blockade der Hambachbahn

Ende Gelände 2018 were a series of events of a mass movement for

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in the in Germany. The

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events were targeted against coal-based power generation through

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and demanded the "immediate

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" based on climate justice and

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. Some smaller activities happened on the in the

Hambach Forest Hambach Forest (german: Hambacher Wald, Hambacher Forst (), Bürgewald, Die Bürge) is an ancient forest located near in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, between Cologne and Aachen. It was planned to be cleared as part of the Hambach s ...

, whereas the main activities were concentrated around the . On the , a

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near the village of as well as the rails of the belonging to the

Hambach surface mine The Tagebau Hambach is a large open-pit coal mine (german: Tagebau) in Niederzier and Elsdorf, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by RWE and used for mining lignite. The mine is on the site of the ancient Hambach Forest, whic ...

were occupied by several thousand

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s for 22 hours in order to symbolically block the transfer of lignite to the power plants. More than people took part in the protests. In the aftermath to the activities, the

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Aachen investigates for

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against some 400 participants of the protests, who also tried to enter the .

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