The Story

January was supposed to be a month of triumph for the German climate movement. Everything had been arranged for heroic scenes of them fighting a last stand against the evil energy firm RWE.

The world was supposed to watch as protesters fought an ultimately futile battle for the village of Lützerath against the combined might of big coal and the police.

Instead, the month ended with the activists being put in the stocks by an angry public.

Their first error came when the group that organised the protest at Lüzerath got a tad too excited when playing the victim card.

According to their account, at least a hundred protesters were left with serious injuries - several fighting for their lives - after the police “smashed down on their heads without restraint.”

“I could have never imagined what I saw today. I saw every bone in the human body broken,” one of the group's "medics"* reported from the scene.

Unfortunately for this narrative, no hospital in t…