Rome: A group of students Friday stepped up Goldman Sachs’s central Milan offices ahead of worldwide protests against financial inequity planned for the weekend.
The Italian protesters are the latest spell of anger at banks and financiers as outcry spreads throughout the world following the occupation of Wall Street in New York City by demonstrators over the past month.
Students managed to break into the hall of the Goldman Sachs building in the heart of Milan’s financial district, a few steps away from La Scala opera house, police said.
The protests were quickly dispersed by security personnel was restored to the elegant building, though red graffiti was daubed on its walls expressing anger at Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and proclaiming “Give us money.”
Protesters in Italy’s financial capital also pelted eggs at the headquarters of UniCredit, the country’s biggest bank.
As part of the global rally on Saturday, a demostration is scheduled to start at 1200 GMT (8 a.m. EDT) in Rome, where peaceful protests in front of the Bank of Italy continued on Friday for a third straight day.
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