Greta Thunberg: German police deny protest detainment was staged

German constabulary person denied being "extras for Greta Thunberg" aft mendacious claims that her detainment astatine a protestation successful occidental Germany was staged.

A viral station falsely claimed the clime activistic being held by constabulary was "all acceptable up for the cameras".

Ms Thunberg and other activists were seeking to halt the abandoned colony of Lützerath from being demolished for the enlargement of a ember mine.

The video of her being removed by constabulary has gained millions of views.

"We would ne'er springiness ourselves to marque specified recordings," a spokesperson for section constabulary told the BBC, denying allegations that Ms Thunberg's detainment was fake.

But it is important that the constabulary alteration reporting and warrant the extortion of media workers, they added.

The viral video shows the clime campaigner flanked by constabulary officers connected either side.

Meanwhile a fewer photographers tin beryllium seen snapping photos and moving astir her, arsenic Ms Thunberg smiles.

Several different constabulary officers who were besides lasting adjacent look to beryllium waiting with her earlier walking her distant from the scene.

Some online person jumped onto these moments of officers and Ms Thunberg waiting around, to falsely assertion that it is portion of a staged photograph opportunity.

However the interior ministry of the occidental authorities of North Rhine-Westphalia told the BBC that the constabulary officers and Ms Thunberg were waiting for logistical reasons.

"They had to hold for a mates of minutes earlier they could bring her to a definite constabulary car," said the spokesperson.

They added that "the full concern has been utilized by those with governmental motives and the existent crushed is wholly applicable and mundane."

Christian Wernicke, a writer from German quality outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung who was determination astatine the time, said the constabulary officers "were deciding however they would proceed with the individuality cheque and waiting to instrumentality Greta to the constabulary vehicle."

"My content was that determination was confusion. Greta was not the archetypal protester who had been taken distant from the sit-in," Mr Wernicke added.

"I've seen antithetic reactions to the video. Some accidental that the footage looks similar the constabulary are mounting her up to embarrass her and others accidental that it is each portion of immoderate propaganda.

"People are interpreting and utilizing this footage for their ain motives."

Many online besides falsely claimed it was a "fake arrest" but constabulary clarified that Ms Thunberg had not been arrested but had been concisely detained.

The radical of activists were detained aft they "rushed towards the ledge" of the Garzweiler 2 mine, constabulary had said connected Tuesday.

Officers besides confirmed each of those detained would not beryllium charged.

Ms Thunberg has often been the people of conspiracy theories and mendacious claims online, often by those who contradict the beingness of man-made clime change.

She tweeted: "Yesterday I was portion of a radical that peacefully protested the enlargement of a ember excavation successful Germany. We were kettled by constabulary and past detained but were fto spell aboriginal that evening.

"Climate extortion is not a crime".