So as the demonstration business is wrapping up in the Lützerath region (the activist action against the RWE coal site in NW Germany).....there's an odd story brewing.
People in the villages around Lützerath have signed up a 'petition-like' letter....sending it to the local police chief, the district administrator and the local mayor.
Their complaint? The activists have unsettled the area. Wild characters running through the neighborhoods....in hoods/masks....throwing firecrackers...daubing walls of buildings, etc. The accusation is that damage was done to buildings and fields around the villages (locally, this was not in a harvest season).
At this point....the protest is considered 99-percent done, and the affair is ended. So there's not likely to be any action to make the local residents happy.
Permanent bias against the protest crowd? Well....yeah, that's the problem here because the locals saw the activist's negative side. You had juvenile behavior, reckless actions, and poor planning all in one single setting. As much as the RWE situation might have been considered negative.....the protest itself became just as big.
The sad thing....because of inaction by politicians and police....the locals probably would have been better off to protest themselves and be activists.....against activists.
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