Was Greta Thunberg really arrested? A video sows doubts about the veracity of the arrest

On Tuesday, the images of the arrest of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg during the Lützerath protests in Germany, they went around the world. In them you can see how three agents of the German Police they take it out on the fly from the area where a group of people demonstrated to demand that the expansion of an open-cast coal mine be halted.

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This Wednesday, however, a video broadcast on social networks has cast doubt on the authenticity of the arrest. The recording shows how the 20-year-old poses smiling for a few seconds in front of a photographer while two riot police hold her by one arm each. Later, the agents carry her and take her to another point.

The activist, who became famous for her sit-ins in front of the Swedish Parliament to demand more climate action from politicians, smiles throughout. An attitude that has sparked criticism about the authenticity of the eviction.

In the town of Lützerath, in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the noise of demolition machines It has been interspersed for days with the cries of thousands of climate activists. It has become the epicenter of the fight against climate change and a headache for the German government, made up of social democrats, liberals and greens.

Some activists have been entrenched for years in this small village that houses a large brown coal mine, one of the most polluting types. Others have moved to the site in recent weeks to prevent RWEone of the largest power companies in the country, demolishes the houses and farms in the area and expands leaf, that extends, in the open sky, along 35 kilometres.