On Wednesday, in the vicinity of the new headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main participants clashed with the police anti-capitalist protest. The incident took place a few hours before the scheduled opening ceremony of the building.
During clashes with police cars were destroyed seven protestors some streets blocked with barricades of burning tires and rubbish. At least one policeman was injured after being hit by stones by protesters near the Opera House, the Alte Oper.
Police used water cannons, trying to make its way to the entrance to the building through the gathered near the crowd dressed in black demonstrators. Around the ECB premises police had put up barriers and barbed wire.
The protest organizer, anti-capitalist alliance Blockupy, said that police attacked some demonstrators and used tear gas.
assured that it is a peaceful protest, but police spokesman identified the mood among the demonstrators as aggressive. “There were already throwing stones and set fire to rubbish bins, seven police cars were destroyed, many set on fire” – she said.
The new building of the ECB for € 1.3 billion
On Wednesday, to be held the official opening of the new ECB building, built at the cost of 1.3 billion euros. O h. 11 is there to speak ECB chief Mario Draghi.
According Blockupy gathered in front of the bank approx. 10 thousand. humans. The organizers hired a special train for the protesters in Berlin and had to deliver buses of protesters from other places in Germany and other countries. “We protest against the ECB as part of the troika, which – although it was not democratically elected – hinders the work of the Greek government,” – said one of the organizers of Ulrich Wilken. “We want to end austerity” – he added.
The ECB is one of the three institutions belonging to the so-called. Troika (next to the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund), which oversees compliance by indebted EU countries implementing the program of spending cuts and debt reduction in exchange for financial assistance.
The new, left-populist government of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Ciprasa, demands to change the terms of the financial assistance provided to Greece by the eurozone countries and the IMF, in particular, to mitigate the required savings projects.
Euroland did not agree to change the terms and conditions. In February, it was agreed that the expiring program of aid to Athens will be extended until the end of June. The Greek authorities have submitted an initial list of planned reforms, which the end of April to be completed. Only positive assessment of the implementation of these arrangements allow for the payment of the overdue installment of Greece support from the European Financial Stability Fund.
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