jeudi 16 avril 2015
ECB protester Josephine Witt surprised by relaxed security measures
Posted on 04:37 by nice news
The German activist who charged ECB President Mario Draghi at a press conference, tossing confetti over him and shouting “End ECB Dick-tatorship”, has said she was shocked at how easy it had been to carry out her stunt.
”I was stunned and surprised at how well it worked out and that I managed to get inside the building at all. It felt very high risk and all the time I was thinking this could easily not work,” Josephine Witt told the Guardian, a day after her protest at the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt.
The 21-year old philosophy student revealed that she had registered as a journalist under the name of Vice Media, the news website which has a German edition, for whom Witt does not work.
”I went through the normal registration process, and once there, through the airport-style controls and showed my ID. They check your bags, but I only had paper in mine which I thought was not unusual for a journalist,” she said.
”As we were waiting for the press conference to start I heard some journalists saying ‘these ECB press conferences are usually quite boring’, and I thought to myself: ‘maybe this time it’ll be a bit different’.”
Soon after Draghi began his statement on monetary policy, Witt, dressed in a black T-shirt bearing the slogan “End ECB Dick-tatorship” climbed on top of the desk where Draghi was speaking, and threw a pile of leaflets at him. She then showered him in white confetti, whilst all the time repeatedly chanting “End ECB Dick-tatorship”.
Witt, who lives in Hamburg, was quickly dragged off by security guards and arrested but later released. It is unclear whether the ECB will press charges against her.
She said that after last month’s protests outside the ECB’s new headquarters, in which anti-austerity demonstrators clashed with police, she had wanted to stage her own peaceful demonstration inside the bank.
”After the aggressive police tactics used outside the ECB, I wanted to show a
”I was stunned and surprised at how well it worked out and that I managed to get inside the building at all. It felt very high risk and all the time I was thinking this could easily not work,” Josephine Witt told the Guardian, a day after her protest at the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt.
The 21-year old philosophy student revealed that she had registered as a journalist under the name of Vice Media, the news website which has a German edition, for whom Witt does not work.
”I went through the normal registration process, and once there, through the airport-style controls and showed my ID. They check your bags, but I only had paper in mine which I thought was not unusual for a journalist,” she said.
”As we were waiting for the press conference to start I heard some journalists saying ‘these ECB press conferences are usually quite boring’, and I thought to myself: ‘maybe this time it’ll be a bit different’.”
Soon after Draghi began his statement on monetary policy, Witt, dressed in a black T-shirt bearing the slogan “End ECB Dick-tatorship” climbed on top of the desk where Draghi was speaking, and threw a pile of leaflets at him. She then showered him in white confetti, whilst all the time repeatedly chanting “End ECB Dick-tatorship”.
Witt, who lives in Hamburg, was quickly dragged off by security guards and arrested but later released. It is unclear whether the ECB will press charges against her.
She said that after last month’s protests outside the ECB’s new headquarters, in which anti-austerity demonstrators clashed with police, she had wanted to stage her own peaceful demonstration inside the bank.
”After the aggressive police tactics used outside the ECB, I wanted to show a
ECB protester Josephine Witt surprised by relaxed security measures
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