A news conference by European Central Bank president Mario Draghi in the bank`s headquarters was briefly interrupted Wednesday when a young woman charged at Draghi calling for an "end to the ECB dictatorship".
The woman was wearing a T-shirt with the same slogan, but spelled "dick tatorship", and appeared to be aged in her twenties.
She jumped onto the podium where Draghi was seated and scattered confetti while shouting the slogan.
The woman was quickly escorted out of the premises by security officers before the news conference resumed.
The ECB has frequently been the target of protests, but this was the first time a demonstrator has actually infiltrated the building and disrupted a news conference in such a manner.
Security in and around the ECB`s headquarters is traditionally extremely tight.
Last month, dozens of people were injured when violent clashes between anti-capitalist protesters left a trail of destruction at the official inauguration of the ECB`s new headquarters in the east of Germany`s financial capital.
