Claim: Desiring that the austerity politics end, Blockupy movement, a critic of the European Central Bank (headquarters: Ostend District of Frankfurt), had its first demonstration in Frankfurt in 2012.
Evidence: Blockupy is a movement protesting against austerity. Representing grass-roots critics of supranational financial institutions such as the "troika": the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), its name is derived from the Occupy movement which sprang up in Wall Street in 2011. Thousands of people attended the first demonstration in Frankfurt in 2012. Ostend district, Frankfurt, Germany