page_title: 2009 May Day protests
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: 2009 May Day protests / Europe / Germany
caption_attribution_description: Finanzministerium nach der EuroMayDay-Demo am 1. Mai 2009
context_page_description: The 2009 May Day protests were a series of international protests that took place across Europe, Asia and in the other parts of the world due to the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the resulting Great Recession. Several May Day marches, which are traditional events, had turned violent in Germany, Turkey and Venezuela as riot police battled protesters in their respective countries. Banks and shops had been attacked in Turkey.
  Further marches had taken place in Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines, Japan and Hong Kong, Cuba, Italy and Spain.
context_section_description: Violence was expected among far right and far left demonstrators and police. German police arrested twelve people after twenty-nine police were injured by two hundred protesters shouting anti-capitalist slogans in Berlin. Forty-nine demonstrators were arrested after several incidents involving bottle-throwing, rock-throwing, and setting fires. Between Berlin and Hamburg, over fifty riot police were injured.
caption: The German Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin was pelted with paint bombs.
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