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Just before Christmas, a group of Letzte Generation activists drove a hydraulic lift truck onto the square between the American and French embassies in Berlin and, directly under the noses of police, sawed off the tip of the city’s giant Christmas tree.

This came as combustion engine and fork lift truck manufacturing sank in the coronavirus crisis, which curbed industrial activity and demand.

The 400 agency jobs are in a variety of shop-floor roles including assembly, welding and fork lift truck drivers.

A heavy goods vehicle and its refrigerated unit, a van and a fork lift truck were also seized along with approximately £12,000 and €2,000.

Robertson and another worker fell about 50 feet from the bucket of a lift truck onto a barge below.