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antiglobalist martyr?

Raymond Parker | 16.06.2001 02:37

Live ammo used in Sweden

Reports, at first unconfirmed, of three protesters shot with live rounds in Gothenburg, Sweden are now surfacing on mainstream media.
Earlier, Indymedia Sweden provided video of bloodied protesters and the sounds of gunfire.
Escalation of actions occurred after police barricaded, and then attacked the protest Convergence Centre. Indymedia also reports (still unconfirmed) that the most severely wounded victim died en route to hospital.

There are calls to storm Swedish embassies around the world.

BBC has posted report at:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1391000/1391007.stm

Raymond Parker

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cops in sweden

16.06.2001 08:51

Get the feeling the cops in sweden never stood a chance?

No riots to speak of in their country for about 10 years, ie well inexperienced, outnumbered 10-1 by protestors.

Have you seen the footage? Tiny numbers of cops in lines trying to do crowd control. It was a mess. There were THREE times more cops around oxford street on May day!!

v

Butchers!

16.06.2001 11:47

It's no excuse to shoot people. If citizens must be killed in order for such Summits to go ahead...this is no Democracy!

state-hate

Stupid pigs

16.06.2001 13:24

From what I can make out, the Swedish police have been extremely stupid. I know cops generally aren't too bright but these ones seem exceptionally dumb. They ignored repeated warnings that 1000 police would not be enough to contain 25,000 demonstrators and then provoked a riot by using extreme violence to compensate for lack of numbers.

Anyway, respect to all the rioters and peaceful protesters alike, and hopefully we'll see more property destruction today. Peace.

Lemming
mail e-mail: lemming@grandtheftcyber.com

Ringmaster has spoken

16.06.2001 15:31

The UK Prime Minister offered sympathy to police who had been injured and good citizens of Gothenburg, who have had their lives disrupted and offered no condolences to the dead or maimed demonstrators, calling them "a travelling circus of anarchists who go from Summit to Summit, disrupting Democracy." And he says he's not "out of touch" ???

coco the clown