• Ever more groups block various shops in the Zeil. Several hundreds still sit and stand in front of MyZeil - Blockupy. (The MyZeil is a shopping mall in the city center of Frankfurt).
  • Blockupy plans to assemble outside of the airport to protest against German immigration policies and what activists have decried as an “inhumane deportation system.” Fraport, the airport operator, has advised passengers to arrive early for their flights.
  • People sit and block the entrance to Terminal 1. We insist on our right to demonstrate - Blockupy. Here is the pic
  • Flights to Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, Geneva and Munich are cancelled at Frankfurt airport.
  • On Saturday, which marks the ECB's 15th birthday, a much bigger demonstration is planned in the city centre with organisers expecting as many as 20,000 participants.
  • European stock markets fell and the euro dropped against the dollar on Friday as traders digested record high eurozone unemployment data following weak US numbers, analysts said. "On the whole this portrays a region which continues to worsen and is unlikely to improve anytime soon," Joshua Mahony, research analyst at Alpari traders said.
  • Here is the video of Blockupy protests on Frankfurt streets chanting "Anti-capitalista".
  • Economists forecast that joblessness will get worse before it gets better in the eurozone, the Guardian reports. "An end to the eurozone labour market downturn is not yet in sight. Even if the eurozone economy exits from recession later this year, the labour market is likely to remain in recession until next year," said Martin van Vliet, at ING Financial Markets.
  • “A fountain in the Zeil district of Frankfurt has been dyed red with detergent and raspberry syrup,” Tweeted public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk. Here is the pic!
  • Some more pic from Twitter users who are out on the streets in Frankfurt. User Migs_Bru Miguel Ongil captured police of the streets, user Martin Konecny @maralkon took a photo of a woman putting up a poster, and user @NevaResistencia Neva posted a picture of German police
  • Eurozone inflation rises to 1.4% in May - Eurostat
  • Felix Gottwald, a pilot, reports that security has been stepped up at Frankfurt airport in anticipation for the arrival of Blockupy protesters. Here what he wtires on Twitter: "Frankfurt Airport has police and security all over due to planned protest by #blockupy the press is ready but everything is calm!"
  • Hundreds of protesters are blocking one entrance to the airport.
  • Blockupy are targetting Deutsche Bank because of its role in food price speculation, which development charities say drives up costs for consumers, the Guardian reported.
  • In total, 26.6 million people were out of work in the full EU in April and 19.3 million in the eurozone - Eurostat.
  • Twitter user Angelika Beer ‏@piratenbeer posted a picture of German police tanks protecting Deutsche Bank HQ in Frankfurt from Blockupy protestors. Here is the pic
  • Twitter users are calling to join europe-wide gatherings planned for June 1. Here is the video
  • Around 300 people heading to the airport were stopped by the police at the main station, Blokupy reported.
  • 500 people gathered in front of the Deutsche Bank building
  • Here is a pic of protesters in Frankfurt.
  • The Blockupy demonstration is moving to Deutsche Bank's headquarters, and Frankfurt airport.
  • Some of the Blockupy protesters are leaving Hauptwache and going to block an "unfair trade" shop 12.00. Others are going to the Frankfurt Airport, user Miguel Ongil ‏@Migs_Bru tweeted.
  • Members of the Blockupy alliance linked arms and stood in groups Friday on streets leading to the bank. The ECB said it remained in operation, however. Police reported no arrests and estimated the number of demonstrators at between 1,000 and 1,500. Organizers said there were more than 3,000.
  • Here is more about 'Blockupy' protestors march against austerity.
  • The combined EU unemployment rate is 23.5 percent. Germany’s rate is the lowest at 7.5 percent.
  • Frankfurt Airport has police and security all over due to planned protest by Blockupy.
  • Thousands of Blockupy protesters continue to circle the European Centrla Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt. People are carrying signs with slogans such as "humanity before profit". They have been met by armed police wearing helmets and riot gear, accompanied by Alsatians.
  • Blockupy speaker Roland Süß said: „The move from public protest to civil disobedience is necessary. With the blockade of the ECB we are making the european resistance against the devestating poverty policy visible. It’s an expression of our solidarity with the people in southern Europe whose existance is threatened by the austerity programs.”
  • The Blockupy protests have not prevented the ECB from operating as usual - a European Central Bank spokesman.
  • Nearly one in four young people across the eurozone are now out of work. The figures released by Eurostat show that 3.624m young people are out of work across the euro area, and 5.627 million in the wider European Union.
  • Many of Frankfurt’s banks have urged staff to take Friday as a holiday, following a state holiday on Thursday.
  • Police reported some protesters had thrown stones and there were some clashes at the barricades, but so far the protests are being conducted peacefully.
  • Blockupy's next aims are Deutsche Bank & Frankfurt National Airport
  • The crowd, estimated at 2,500 by local authorities, is clutching signs demanding ‘humanity before profit’.
  • Blockupy spokesman Ani Diesselmann announced, "The blockade is standing. The business of the ECB is successfully disrupted."
  • Frankfurt police cordon off the streets around the ECB, while the underground train station on the square where the building is located is closed.
  • Frankfurt's financial district could be occupied by as many as 20,000 for the wider action on Saturday.
  • The Blockupy movement in Europe came about after the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011. Protesters held a four-day demonstration in Frankfurt 12 months ago, coordinated from a camp set up outside the ECB's headquarters.
  • The demonstrations in Germany's financial capital come ahead of Europe-wide gatherings planned for June 1 and roughly a year after police detained hundreds of people for defying a temporary ban on protests at a similar four-day event in Frankfurt.
  • Members of the Blockupy movement – a European version of Occupy – hope to cut off access to the European Central Bank and other financial institutions in Frankfurt today. They are protesting against the economic policies which are being implemented in Southern Europe.
  • Today could be dominated by protests and economic data, as demonstrators gather in Frankfurt to a rally against the handling of Europe's debt crisis.
  • Blockupy released a statement, declaring that 3,000 protesters have managed to surround the European Central Bank's headquarters.
  • Lots of shops closed for Blockupy in Frankfurt. More umbrellas than riot shields on view, pretty mellow as demos go
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