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		</div><p>Climate activists have occupied a giant digger at a coal mine in western Germany as part of a protest against the destruction of a nearby village for the expansion of a separate mine.</p>
<p>Energy company RWE told German news agency dpa that four people climbed onto the digger early on Monday and operations at the Hambach lignite mine have been paused.</p>
<p>Police have been informed of the incident, the company said.</p>
<p>Anti-coal group Ende Gelaende wrote on the Mastodon site that a second group of activists had climbed onto a bridge to block access to the village of Luetzerath, which has become a flashpoint for protests in the past week.</p>
<p>Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday against the razing of the village by RWE for the expansion of the Garzweiler coal mine, which is about 12 miles north of Hambach.</p>
<p>Police and RWE began evicting activists on Wednesday from Luetzerath, removing roadblocks, chopping down treehouses and bulldozing buildings.</p>
<p>By Sunday, they said the operation had almost finished.</p>
<p>The government and RWE say the coal beneath Luetzerath is needed to ensure Germany’s energy supply in the coming years.</p>
<p>Environmental campaigners and scientists dispute this, and warn that burning tens of millions of tonnes of coal would undermine Germany’s climate goals.</p>
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