Ahead of the
demonstrations, the left-wing groups vowed to block the two
ministries and disrupt their work over perceived policies of social
division and in protest over the strengthening of right-wing forces
in society.
The protest
comes just days after the German Labour and Social Affairs Minister
Andrea Nahles announced the latest Hartz IV labor welfare reforms.
The Hartz IV unemployment handout is set to rise in 2017, but the new
rates have been criticized as too low and arbitrary. Non-asylum
seeker migrants will also be excluded for receiving the benefits.
[...]
Minor
disturbances took place during the protest, with demonstrators using
fireworks and attacking several police officers, the representative
added, noting that 52 people have been detained on charges of
committing civil disorder.
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The police
had acted inappropriately, the representative added, stating that
numerous demonstrators sustained injuries and one suffered a broken
nose.
Blockupy is
a pan-European anti-austerity movement which comprises leftist and
far-left organizations. Movement members mainly target the European
Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary
Fund. In 2015, Blockupy organized protests against the opening of new
ECB headquarters in Frankfurt. Attended by tens of thousands of
protesters, the demonstrations were marked by clashes with police in
which some 150 police officers were injured.
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