In Europe, restless. The official ceremony of the new headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main - two overlapping 185-meter towers, the construction of which cost about 1.3 billion euros, was held on March 18 at the background of street clashes opponents of the international financial system and the police.The protesters were acting under the slogans of "Death to Capitalism!" And "Fuck Eurobank!".
By the opening of the ECB headquarters for the 1.3 billion euros the surrounding area prepared as a small military action. Local banks and supermarkets said they will close earlier than usual, the owners of the cafe in the street where the protest had been planned, was removed from the familiar to the European open-air furniture.Security officials took unprecedented security measures. Thus, the entire area is covered with the beginning of the week, right of passage into the territory, surrounded by iron fences and barbed wire are only locals and staff offices.
The new building - two overlapping 185-meter tower:
It was impossible to get there by car or public transport ground. Closed and the nearest railway line. List of action was solid, but they were not enough ...
Although, at first everything was peaceful. Frankfurt, March 18, 2015.
Left-wing radical movement Blockupy, which became the main organizer of the shares in Frankfurt, before the start of its promises to bring to the streets 10 thousand people to protest against the "anti-social policy of the ECB." In fact, it was much less.
numerous protests reinforced activity. Under the slogans of "Death to Capitalism!" And "Fuck Eurobank!" They quickly moved "to the case." About a thousand people in the morning broke through the police cordon in the area where is located the headquarters of the ECB, and tried to organize there something like a barricade.
Firefighters extinguish a burning police cars
Flying the pot. Management of schools and kindergartens in the complex area of the ECB called on parents to take the children home because of the dangerous situation on the street. Partially stopped work address.
Cobblestones with the pavement, without them nowhere.
The crowd with flags unfurled Blockupy and the slogan "Let's start of evening!" Held an unauthorized march to the Opernplatz to six in the morning, smashing shop windows.
Undoubtedly, the pogroms culminating in Frankfurt become clowns. So some protesters dressed up.Another flying cobblestones. Frankfurt, March 18, 2015
Peaceful protests
Clowns against the police.
But made of cobblestones, anarchy sign looks creative
Demonstrators dressed as clowns.
The girl went crying.
16 demonstrators were arrested.
Pogroms in Frankfurt am Main
