Some 2,500 Protest In Zurich Against Housing Situation

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Around 2,500 people marched in Zurich on Saturday afternoon against what they called“a city of the rich”. They criticised rising rents, lease terminations, and neighbourhood gentrification. Select your language

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The demonstration set off from the Hardplatz square at around 2.30 pm on Saturday. It was led by a float symbolically decorated with a shark – the so-called“Immo-Hai” (“Real-estate shark”).

The protest, which was authorised, was held under the motto“Against a city of the rich”. The route ran via Hardbrücke, Escher-Wyss-Platz, Limmatplatz and Langstrasse to Kasernenwiese.

A reporter from the Keystone-SDA news agency estimated around 2,500 people, many carrying flags and banners with slogans such as“Crimetower instead of Primetower”,“Housing is a basic right for all” and“Build up the Gold Coast” (a nod to a wealthy district by Lake Zurich).

Along the route, masked demonstrators spray-painted slogans and messages, including on the Hardbrücke bridge, from where some threw water balloons at the Primetower and set off pyrotechnics.

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