Activists at a forest camp organized to protest US e-carmaker Tesla's expansion plans in suburban Berlin want to take legal action to prevent state authorities from forcing them to dismantle tree houses they built for the action.
Protesters said said they will "exhaust all legal means to prevent an eviction," according to a statement from the "Stop Tesla" initiative.
The group has not said what specific steps it intends to take.
On Friday, authorities confirmed an extension of the camp under certain conditions, including that they must dismantle their tree houses by Monday.
The activists had already announced that they would not fulfil this condition. Brandenburg's Interior Minister Michael Stübgen had stated that he saw this as a breach of the conditions, which could possibly mean the protest has to end.
Activists want to prevent the forest from being cleared as part of the planned expansion of the Tesla site. In a non-binding resolution, a majority of residents in Grünheide, the Berlin suburb where the plant is located, voted against its development.
The municipality of Grünheide has now suggested that only around half of the initially earmarked forest area be cleared for the Tesla expansion.
