DOZENS of climate activists glued themselves to the road in Cologne city centre and to a state government building in Duesseldorf today to protest against the destruction of a village to make way for a coalmine expansion.

The protests came a day after the last two climate activists holed up in a tunnel beneath the village of Luetzerath, which has been abandoned by its residents, left the site.

Police and energy company RWE started evicting protesters from the hamlet on January 11, removing roadblocks, chopping down treehouses and bulldozing buildings.