Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was carried away by police during a protest against the bulldozing of a German village to make way for the expansion of a coal mine.
Thunberg was detained alongside other activists on Tuesday during protests against the demolition of the coal village of Luetzerath.
According to police, the entire group will be released later in the day.
Thunberg was held while protesting at the opencast coal mine of Garzweiler II, which is around 5.6 miles from Luetzerath, where she sat with a group of protesters near the edge of the mine.
The clearing of the village in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia was agreed between RWE, the energy giant which owns the village, and the government in a deal that allowed the firm to demolish Lutzerath in exchange for its faster exit from coal and saving five villages originally slated for destruction.
Thunberg was carried away by three policemen and held by one arm at a spot further away from the edge of the mine where she was previously sat with the group.
She was then escorted back towards police vans.
The Swedish climate activist addressed the around 6,000 protesters who marched towards Lutzerath on Saturday, calling the expansion of the mine a “betrayal of present and future generations”.
“Germany is one of the biggest polluters in the world and needs to be held accountable,” she said.
Activists have said Germany should not be mining any more lignite – a brown coal generally used to generate electricity at power plants – and should focus on expanding renewable energy instead.
Riot police backed by bulldozers removed activists from buildings in the village with only a few left in trees and an underground tunnel by last weekend. But protesters including Thunberg remained at the site staging a sit-in into Tuesday.