Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 13:02:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: M-G: A serious pro-Nazi police provocation in Malmoe, Sweden


A serious pro-Nazi police provocation in Malm=F6, Sweden
[Posted: 08.06.97]

Yesterday, according to newspaper reports, there was a
provocative gathering in a street corner here in Malm=F6
by some 20 members of the infamous Nazi clique "Sverige-
demokraterna". When 100 people assembled to protest
against this, the police attacked them, directing their
horses straight into the crowd, beating several people
with sticks and taking some of the anti-fascists into
custody.

This is a flagrant provocation and an instance of pro-
Nazi police brutality of a kind that has not been seen
in this city before. It must arouse everybody's
strongest protest!

The context in which this thus protected Nazi gathering
took place also is noteworthy. Such a gathering these
cliques otherwise have not dared try here in town since
20.08.1994, when, after calls for action by myself and
by others, an attempted "demonstration" was stopped by
some 500 anti-facsists despite the police's attempt with
considerable forces to protect it.

But precisely yesterday, on the same day that the
Committee Save Barseb=E4ck held a small but politically
quite important street meeting (in which I participated)
in central Malm=F6 against an expected reactionary and
criminal decision by the Swedish parliament next Tuesday -
a meeting which had been planned and announced since 16.05
- that Nazi clique came forward again, to perpetrate their
provocation one hour before that meeting and at a place
less than 300 meters away from it.

A coincidence perhaps? Quite possibly not.

Whatever the root origins and cause, yesterday's police
attack here in Malm=F6 is a new and serious development.
Such things absolutely must be combated and resisted!

Rolf M.



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