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Swiss protestors to hold anti-Wall Street demo

Demonstrators are expected to gather on Saturday in the Swiss cities of Zurich, Geneva and Basel for protests modelled after the anti-Wall Street marches against US authorities and the banking industry.

Published: 10 October 2011 18:09 CEST

About 1,000 demonstrators are expected to meet from 0800 GMT at Zurich’s Paradeplatz, the iconic site where both UBS and Credit Suisse are located.

“We aim to be peaceful, all other types of behaviour would be counter-productive,” said Fabian Fuhrer, an activist from the Swiss branch of ‘We are change’.

“Banks have more say than the citizens. It should not be so. This should change,” said Fuhrer.

“We hope that many people would join us” on Saturday, he added.

Swiss authorities have not issued an authorisation for the demonstration, but the organisers said the march would go on “no matter what.”

On the Facebook group ‘Occupy Paradeplatz’, which counts 800 participants on Monday, organisers explained that the Swiss demonstrations would be part of a worldwide movement on Saturday.

The Occupy Wall Street protests, which started on September 17th in a New York park, have since spread across the United States.

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FOOTBALL

‘I’m fine — under the circumstances’: Collapsed Danish striker tweets from hospital

Christian Eriksen, the Danish football player who collapsed on the pitch in his country's opening Euro 2020 game, said that he was doing "fine" in an Instagram post from hospital on Tuesday.

Published: 15 June 2021 10:50 CEST
'I’m fine — under the circumstances': Collapsed Danish striker tweets from hospital
Danish striker Christian Eriksen tweeted a picture of himself in hospital. Photo: DBU

“I’m fine — under the circumstances, I still have to go through some examinations at the hospital, but I feel okay,” he wrote in a post accompanying a photo of him smiling and giving a thumbs-up while lying in bed.

In a scene that shocked the sporting world and beyond, the 29-year-old Inter Milan midfielder suddenly collapsed on the field in the 43rd minute of Denmark’s Group B game on Saturday against Finland in Copenhagen.

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Medical personnel administered CPR as he lay motionless on the field for about 15 minutes before being carried off the pitch and rushed to hospital. He was later confirmed to have suffered cardiac arrest.

“Big thanks for your sweet and amazing greetings and messages from all around the world. It means a lot to me and my family,” he wrote in Tuesday’s post. “Now, I will cheer on the boys on the Denmark team in the next matches. Play for all of Denmark.”

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