“We have not yet quantified the damage. It will be necessary to do a thorough inspection of all the technologies on which (activists) were or around which they moved, but it will certainly be in the hundreds of thousands. We will enforce it after all those who caused the damage, “said Maříková. In addition to the four activists who occupied the excavator, another 105 people broke into the quarry on Saturday. Police detained them for misdemeanors after several hours and released them after identification.
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On Saturday morning, activists from the Kitten Riot group occupied an overburden machine that was running. The mining company had to stop mining. According to Maříková, mining will be resumed on Monday at the earliest. “We have to check all the technologies before we launch them again,” she added.
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Environmental activists on Saturday protested against coal mining in two places in the Ústí nad Labem region. They not only penetrated the Vršany quarry, but also demonstrated in front of the Počerady power plant in the Louny region, which is the largest consumer of brown coal from this quarry.
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