In Pictures: Police move on coal mine protesters barricaded in abandoned German village - Police officers and activists

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Police officers and activists clash during a demonstration at Luetzerath, a village that is about to be demolished to allow for the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany's utility RWE, in Luetzerath, Germany.

REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen

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Police officers take away an activist on a trolley during a sit-in protest against the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany's utility RWE, in Luetzerath, Germany.

REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

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Police officers try to evict people from the tree houses as activists take part in a sit-in protest against the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany's utility RWE, in Luetzerath, Germany.

REUTERS/Christian Mang

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Demonstrators threw Molotow cocktails and fireworks at police officers, during a protest against the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany's utility RWE in Luetzerath, Germany.

REUTERS/Benjamin Westhoff

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An excavator removes a construction as activists stage a sit-in protest against the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany's utility RWE, in Luetzerath, Germany.

REUTERS/Christian Mang

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