Draghi Ordeal Shows Flaws in Security at $1.4 Billion Site
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One question prompted by the protester who jumped at Mario Draghi during the European Central Bank president’s press conference on Wednesday is: How did she get so close?
Accessing the Frankfurt headquarters for Draghi’s briefing on the ECB’s monetary-policy meeting requires reporters to pre-register, present identification -- twice -- and pass an airport-style security check. Yet Josephine Witt not only reached the media center, she evaded bodyguards to scatter paper on Draghi and shout her slogan: “End ECB dictatorship.”