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The protestors felt that the demands of the young people for their own cultural center had been ignored for years and that the astronomical grant for the opera house demonstrated this lack of commitment to youth by Zürich's conservative government. Their reaction was a "long pent-up anger," as seen
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police corps were informed beforehand and were stationed in the foyer of the opera house as a precautionary measure. As the youths occupied the exterior stairs of the opera house, the demonstration degenerated into a street battle between demonstrators and the police, who were equipped with water
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square in Zürich, but later spread throughout the whole city. A public referendum also contributed to the riots, as the city of Zurich planned to grant CHF 61 million for a renovation and an extension of the opera house, but nothing for the planned
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on a newspaper headline. "Züri brännt" has since become a household word, and is the title of a punk song by the band TNT. Andreas Homoki, director of the opera house, described the situation in the "hot summer of 1980" as explosive, and that "
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