In contrast to the evictions at Occupy Wall Street, the threats at Occupy London, and the violence at Occupy Oakland, the scene at Occupy Frankfurt sounds downright pleasant.

Jack Ewing of the New York Times went down to check out the protest, finding about 50 tents existing without the threat of eviction and no arrests at the site.

Talking to one protester, a 50-year-old man known as Jay from North Carolina, Ewing found the man praising the police. “The way I see it, they don’t bother, they protect,” said Jay.

The authorities and banks are also pretty content. “If they have the staying power, they can camp there all winter,” said Michael Jenisch, a spokesman for the Frankfurt Ordnungsamt (Office of Public Order), and German sources have already written about how bankers and protestors have even been discussing the banking system at the campsite.

Of course there is a downside to this. That, Ewing writes, is a lack of press attention:

The camp generated a flurry of news coverage when it first appeared, but it has largely disappeared from the pages of German newspapers.

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