mo4ch:>Hundreds of anti-coal protesters clash with police in open-pit mine (VIDEO) | Mo4ch News

Chaotic scenes played out in and around one of Germany’s biggest lignite mines when hundreds of environmental activists dressed in white overalls broke cordons and clashed with riot police.Protesters stormed the open-pit mine operated by energy giant RWE  in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia on Saturday demanding urgent actions on climate change and making the European Union carbon neutral. Ignoring police warnings that the mine is prone to landslides and that the avalanche of activists could well trigger them, protesters broke police lines and made their way down, facing off with mine workers in the process.Video by RT’s Ruptly video agency shows police rounding up some of the activists and pinning them to the ground, while others continue their run unimpeded.The protest was a part of  Ende Gelände (End of the Line) movement that started off in 2015 when some 1,500 activists blocked this very mine. The facility that produces lignite, or brown coal, became the focus of outrage after…