Hundreds of people demonstrated against the state of the housing market in the city of Zurich on Saturday.

The demonstrators marched peacefully from Turbinenplatz to Helvetiaplatz. Various speeches denounced the housing shortage and rents with high profits - as well as capitalism in general.

There was no major damage to property or attacks on the police. The demonstrators only symbolically smashed a “rent shark” they had brought with them.

The police limited themselves to cordoning off the streets in the direction of the railway station and allowed the authorised demonstration to proceed through districts 4 and 5. It lasted a good three hours and broke up at Helvetiaplatz at around 6pm. Traffic and various bus and tram lines were disrupted for a long time. …