DÜSSELDORF (dpa-AFX) - The North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament is working through the disputes surrounding the lignite village of Lützerath in several committees this week. The economic, interior and municipal committees are dealing with various aspects of the fundamental dispute about the necessity and proportionality of the eviction.

The Economics Committee will discuss the question "Resentment over the coal deal - how does the state government assess new doubts from the Green parliamentary group?" in a topical quarter-hour session this Wednesday morning. Another topical quarter-hour has been requested for the Interior Committee on Thursday. The SPD opposition wants to find out why the demonstration last Saturday had escalated in some places.

On the fringes of the large demonstration, according to police, about 1000 largely masked "disruptors" had tried to enter the cordoned-off area of Lützerath. The police used water cannons, batons and pepper spray against them. Twelve people were arrested or taken into custody.

According to police, nine activists were taken to hospital by ambulance. On the part of the police, more than 80 officers were injured on Saturday, although it is not yet clear how many were injured by external causes - or had fallen over in the deep mud, for example. In addition, there are two other items on the agenda of the Interior Committee concerning the topic of Lützerath.

In the local committee it concerns on Friday finally the question whether the mayor of Erkelenz threatens a disciplinary procedure. Mayor Stephan Muckel (CDU) had announced in December that he would resist the instruction to evict Lützerath.

The Green Party leader in the Bundestag, Katharina Dröge, told the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" (Tuesday) about the police deployment at the large-scale demonstration: "There are videos with harsh images on the Internet." The images showed "a partially harsh police operation" and demonstrators who had tried to reach the demolition edge of the open pit mine and thus put themselves in mortal danger.

The Green politician announced that they wanted to talk to the parliamentary observers about their impressions. Videos alone were "not sufficient to get a comprehensive picture and to assess the legality of the measures taken." Therefore, a "structured reappraisal" is needed.

She had no sympathy for the action of two activists who had barricaded themselves in an underground tunnel in the lignite mining town for days. Lützerath, which belongs to Erkelenz west of Cologne, had been cleared in a large-scale police operation that lasted for days against the resistance of hundreds of climate activists. The energy company RWE wants to mine lignite there./wa/ola/beg/DP/mis