From: "Mike Pugsley" <wobbly8-AT-mail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 01:05:46 +0800
Subject: First hand account of shooting in Sweden


At least two people have been shot by police in
Sweden, there are rumours that one has died,
hopefully this will turn out not to be true.

How the shooting occurred
>From http://sweden.indymedia.org/

 by T.R.O.Y. 2:16pm Fri Jun 15 '01 (Modified on 
3:11pm Fri Jun 15 '01)  eerie-AT-sbbs.se 

 Reclaim the City street party ends in shootings- here's 
teh eyewitness account of the chain of events that led up 
to the shooting. 

 It started with a Reclaim the City street party around 
eight o'clock friday evening after a day of street battles 
and rioting. This is what happened according to 
eyewitness accounts. 

 The mood was reportedly festive on Vasagatan as 
people listened to music and danced. It is, however, not 
legal to dance in the streets and the police chose to go 
in with riot gear and dogs. 

 After a period of fighting between police and the 
Reclaimers a small group of between 5 to 8 police in 
riot gear enter the area where the Reclaimers were. This, 
in itself, is not only contrary to normal procedure, it is 
quite dangerous as they soon found out. 

 The larger group of 50 or so riot police had moved 
onward without the smaller group knowing about it and 
when one of the police in the smaller group picked up a 
stone and threw it at the demonstrators, the crowd 
became outraged and threw themselves upon the police 
beating them and then chasing them. 

 The police ran away but found themselves cornered. 
As the demonstrators entrapped them, the police started 
shooting. According to several eyewitness reports there 
were about 15 shots. 

 The end result -so far- is that two demonstrators have 
been shot- one in the stomach, one in the leg- and there 
are reports coming in now that a policeman has also 
been shot. Whether he was shot by 'friendly fire' or not 
is at this point not known.


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