hundreds “Blockupy” activists protesting on Friday in the financial metropolis of Frankfurt am Main the banks and the European austerity. The police advanced with water cannons against the European Central Bank (ECB), where demonstrators protested near the exclusion zone. About 400 people were detained. The “Blockupy ‘Alliance spoke of some 500 officers and threw the front of some violent action. The police denied the allegations.

The demonstrators were to gain the ear drums, busy street intersections. Smaller groups broke on to new places, making it difficult to police, to keep track. Police evacuated sit-ins, at Main and at the fairgrounds, they broke up protest marches with up to 1,000 people. Some 5,000 police officers from several states were deployed. The entire Frankfurt Opera Tower, which sits in, among other things, the German UBS headquarters remained closed as a precaution.

property damage, but no violence

Despite the actions of the police manage the demonstrators to gather again at different locations. Recently there were still each around 200 demonstrators at the Swiss court and in the Fressgass, also at the DGB-house gathered, police said a crowd.

A police spokesman FOCUS Online said it was morning or damage to property on the train track come, the manipulation of cables led to cancellations. Traffic signs had been torn out. Moreover, had been used somewhere in the protest on the part of the demonstrators tear gas.

The Left and Attac support “Blockupy”

Travel to the approved demonstration, according to the regulating authority and up to 30 000 people, including about 2,000 violent autonomous from all over Europe. The critics of capitalism had originally planned several demonstrations, , the city banned but most protests . After complaints from several courts merely a demonstration on Saturday was allowed. Police had evacuated on Thursday the town hall square, where 700 activists demonstrated. On Wednesday was a protest camp was disbanded prior to the ECB.