Josephine Witt, the 21-year old philosophy student who stormed at ECB President Mario Draghi and covered him in glitter and confetti while shouting 'End ECB dick-tatorship' at a press conference in Frankfurt on Wednesday, has said that she was surprised by how easy it was to get access to the event:

"I was stunned and surprised at how well it worked out and that I managed to get inside the building at all. It felt very high risk and all the time I was thinking this could easily not work."

After taking part in the confrontational anti-austerity protests outside of the new ECB building in Frankfurt during March, Ms Witt told the Guardian that she decided that she would try to get inside to stage her own peaceful protest:

"After the aggressive police tactics used outside the ECB, I wanted to show a positive way of non-radical, peaceful protest inside the devil’s den," she said.

Adding: "What could have been better than dancing on the table of that unelected man in his ivory tower?"

She gained press accreditation, registering under false details that claimed that she was a reporter from Vice.

Ms Witt is a member of FEMEN, an international feminist protest movement - she explains her specific motivations:

"What I wanted to demonstrate is that economics are not just some god-given thing that we have to accept and go along with. We can try to change our economy. If the ECB was a democratically elected institution we could use it far more for the better."

She continues: "The picture of Mario Draghi’s face was priceless – he was scared, surprised and shaken, and gone was the big poker-faced banker – it was suddenly just an ordinary man there in front of me."

This was not the first high profile protest that she has been involved in - she was part of a group that confronted Russian president Vladimir Putin at a trade fair in Hanover - and took part in a topless protest in Tunisia that landed her in jail for four weeks. A Christmas Day protest that she took part in at a Cathedral in Cologne is also under investigation. 

It is unclear if the ECB intends to press charges.