A check for 33 billion euros.

Creative Education protests: in Berlin, as in other large cities, students and pupils played today bank robbery and demanded more money for education. In the capital, they stormed several branches. blogs-ONLINE-author Torben Waleczek was a branch there.

 

Suddenly, everything goes very fixed. In the 300 meters sprint, once around the corner, in red on the street - and straight into the bank. The police do not come so soon afterwards. About 40 demonstrators storming into the Commerzbank branch in Berlin Europe Center - Bank raid.

Inside the store, a confetti rain, loud cries echo through the lobby. Again and again: "Money for education rather than for banks." Some demonstrators wear black hooded sweater and sunglasses, most of them dressed every day. The suit makers at the counters look aghast. "I am afraid not," says a bank employee. "But it is pretty loud."

"Solves your checks!"

The young people storming into the first floor, looking for the branch manager. The aim on the large cardboard check to write, they have brought. Registered sum, which the students wish for education: 33 billion euros.

It is education week in Germany to strike - and after a
leisurely prelude and
Mass demonstrations on Wednesday were on Thursday nationwide symbolic raids bank announced.

The students dislike the fact that the State guarantees for billions of shaky banks, while schools and universities in their view, become lost. Feigned attacks started about, inter alia, in Munich, Hamburg, Flensburg, Cologne and Erfurt.

In Berlin, gathered in the afternoon several hundred demonstrators outside the branch of Hypo Real Estate. But the building of the police is already so heavily backed that nobody comes into it.

After speeches by
Peter Grottian, a political scientist and initiator of the bank raid idea of union and student representatives from the character suddenly comes to attack: "Solves your checks," a spokesman calls through the speakers. The volume is divided into several groups in different directions apart Stieber. 50 demonstrators create it before the police in a branch of Deutsche Bank, about 15 to 40 in Postbank and Commerzbank in Tauentzienstraße.

"If you go now, the police must not admit"

Here fly brochures and forms through the stairwell, speech choirs resound with the megaphone of stairs and walls again. Police block the entrance now and wrangle with the back of demonstrators who still want it.

A friendly bank employee takes courage to negotiate with those who are in the bank have done. He smiles and says that one could still reasonably be agreed. "If you now voluntarily, then the police must not forcibly admit." The protesters want to but do not.

You have a check, let the store manager, please. On the side of the bank employees are officers with helmets and thick padded clothing. Meanwhile, the negotiators will disappear and some police officers in an adjoining room.

Applause for the friendly banker

In another office advises an employee just an old lady. Through the glass door look both confused about the demonstrators - and then continued their entertainment, as if nothing had happened.

The demonstrators are on the floor and wait. No one shatters windows, walls or the scribblings provoked the police. "We have no desire to shock," says a Berlin student, his name will not name. Attention so you get enough.

After a scant half hour then an offer, transmitted again by the friendly smiling staff: "We are happy to continue the message", the branch manager will be informed, but now is not to speak.

At least at a symbolic concession to the activists are talking about the Banker: The friendly Mr. sticking his business card on the 33-billion-dollar check. That brings him applause, some demonstrators away from him goodbye with a handshake.

Everything is gone - but the doors remain verrammelt

Actually, all so peaceful, like the whole time they were over, go home. But the entrance doors to the bank are still to be. Some munkeln, it will still give trouble with the police and judiciary.

A helmeted policeman explains what some have already feared: You will all demonstrators from the personal record, it is irrelevant in a criminal display of trespassing. That should not erstmal raus.

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The demonstrators are becoming increasingly nervous, and some phone calls with lawyers and others looking for the toilets. Individually policemen lead the demonstrators outside. "We were all just here but in order to open an account," says one student. There's nothing even bear his name the officials on their labels A.

When all the activists out there again, it is clear that it is in the bank, perhaps better than some demonstrators were outside the door. Before a branch of Deutsche Bank near Tauentzienstraße grabbed the police after reports of blogs-TV reporters to pepper spray to fend off protesters who tried to interfere in the branch to push.