“In the afternoon, one of our unmarked duty cars and passengers was set on fire and burned down as a result,” the law enforcement agency said in a statement.

As RIA Novosti reported earlier, the German energy company RWE plans to mine coal in Lutzerat.

For this, according to the decree, the village must be completely liberated from the people living in it before the end of January.

Eco-activists protesting against mining settled in houses where local residents had already moved out.

The evacuation from Lutzerath began.