The more such unpleasant incidents, when banks don't give back the money of their depositors, the more people realize that something should be changed in their financial life. If banks are acting so mean, then you should try alternative ways to store money, for example, bitcoin. Indeed, bitcoin doesn't have the problem described in your post and allows you to freely dispose of your money. On the positive side, bank abuses are becoming more and more publicized, and this is in favor of spreading bitcoin. Depositors will take their money (if they can and don't have to demand their return as the heroine of this story) and exchange it for bitcoin to become a bank for themselves.