The photos can’t depart the German riot police in a worse place. Five brokers, geared up with helmets, vests and batons, starring regardless of themselves, a sequence typical of the very best ‘slapstick’ once they get trapped in a sticky quagmire from which they’re unable to get out with out assist.
The downside is that those that come to assist their companions are additionally immersed within the mud entice. And the worst: they’re on the mercy of the protesters, who throw every thing they’ve at hand.
To include the ecologists, the riot police used, amongst different strategies, water cannons that, amongst different issues, moistened the bottom and triggered the formation of the mud that might change into its personal entice.
Greta, towards a German coal mine