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Attempted murder or a really bad cop? What really happened in Gothenburg |
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by MM
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26 Aug 2001
Modified: 27 Aug 2001 |
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The truth is finally beginning to slip out about what happened in Gothenburg, and people are not happy about it. |
What happened that near-fatal night when a 19-year old got shot in the chest, nearly killing him? Were the cops in danger for their lives, like the official police version said? Well now new evidence is coming forth, that claims otherwise. Let me take it from the beginning.
Around 20pm Friday night 15 of June a van pulls into the park of Vasaplatsen, Gothenburg. Reclaim the city is planning an illegal street party there. Music starts playing and ppl are gathering and begin to dance. All of a sudden a great number of police begin surrounding the park, making it impossible for anybody to leave. The last part is important because all of the sudden a gang of soccer supporters/nazis gets through the police line and start yelling and attacking dark-coloured people. Then when the demonstrators starts chasing them, they run right through the police lines again--they do this several times! This is all on film. Meanwhile ,nobody at the party is allowed to leave, this is of course very provoking for the demonstrators.
Then the police starts moving forward, closing the circle around the protesters ,forcing them to sit down, while they treat them harshly, to put it nicely. Remember that, even though the party was illegal, the police never called for anyone to leave, which makes the police actions illegal. The police pulls the plug ,the music is silenced, and the police starts forcing the people at the party to go up the street towards the university. But up on the top of the street, another line of police is blocking them from escaping. Trapped with nowhere to go, riots breaks out.
it is now new facts are coming. It turns out that the police didn’t just shot 3 shots...they shot 12!! 12 shots with live ammunition right into a crowd! It also turns out, and this is all on film, that the cops who shot the 19-year old, never was in any danger whatsoever! There has been claims (from the police) that the 19-year old was just about to attack an injured cop who was then forced to fire his gun....this is a lie.
This is what happened, its all on tape.
The unmasked 19-year old runs up towards the police. He is completely alone except for a couple of photographers taking pictures. There must be at least 10 cops, all armed with shields, batons and some even has dogs. At the same time at least 4 more cops walks towards the group of police standing in front of the 19-year old. That means that there was at least 14 cops standing in front of the 19-year old. They could have easily just walked up to him and arrested him if they wanted.
Meanwhile you can see the alleged injured cop laying on the ground a couple of meters in the background behind the police line. The 19-year old was nowhere near him.
The 19-year old picks up and throws a concrete brick at the police...it doesn’t even come close. He turns around as he gives the police the finger, then he walks back to where there are 2 stones on the ground, one is a concrete brick, the other is just a smaller stone, not even as big as his hand. He chooses the smaller one and picks it up and throw it at the police, it doesn’t hit either. Then, as he turn around, a police officer fires his gun. The 19-year old grins and stumbles back away from the cops. When you look at the film of him retreating, you can see that he is completely alone except for some photographers. Its not until he gets around the corner that you see other demonstrators. He falls to the ground as some medics walks up to him to see what is wrong. They don’t seems to understand that he is shot, and they don’t find the wound, or maybe they just don’t have time to because then the police starts moving forward, so they ,including the 19-year old, who seems to be ok so far, stands up and start moving back. But then the 19-year old collapses again. The medics starts looking for wounds again, and this time they find it, they also see that it has gone right through him. They starts yelling \"he is shot! he is shot!\", and tries to stop the bleeding. They also try to keep the 19-year old awake. You can see that the 19-year old is getting blue. He also starts to shake. Then 3 police officers comes up and tells them to move, when they say he is shot, one police officer starts helping and then the ambulance comes. He is then driven to the hospital where he struggles for his life for 2-3 weeks--he is very close to die at least two times during those weeks.
What saved him is as he said himself; \"Lucky thing I was turning around, or it would have been a bullseye\".
The fact that police fires their guns at people seemingly without any reason should be a scandal in itself, but no one questioned the police version. All the corporate media shows what they really are--propaganda machines.
Not only that, but the police fires 12 more shots right into the crowd! This too exist on tape. Another protester was inches away from getting hit in the head, for instance. On the film you can see him standing against a lamppost as you hear shots being fired. Then you hear a bullet hitting the lamppost, and you can see the activist brushing of pieces of it from his hair as he run away. The mark is still there and it’s at head height.
So what made several police officer draw their guns, and one shoot an unarmed protester who were no threat whatsoever for them ,right in the stomach, almost killing him? Was he trying to murder him or was he just a really incompetent amateur cop? If the latter is the answer, he should resign from the police right now, if its the first, he should get a long time in jail.(The demonstrators have gotten 2 years in prison. One man who was pointed out as the \"leader\" got 4 years).
As I mentioned in the beginning, the public in Sweden aren’t happy, but not because the police lied, but because this new facts takes the sides of the \"anarchists/hooligans/terrorists\", and they don’t like that (the 19-year old got to say his version).Maybe that’s not so surprising, considering they have been fed by lies and one-sided stories up until now.
Whatever you think of what happened in Gothenburg, one thing is clear; during these 3 days, democracy in Sweden broke down completely ,and in its place came a fascist dictatorship and a police state. |
See also:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60570&group=webcast
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Link To Video Of Shooting |
by hydrarchist
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Current rating: 0
27 Aug 2001
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http://www.svt.se/granskning/video/2001/0814/gbg1.ram
The clip is 16 minutes long and opens with the section of the shooting.
Later, 8 minutes 45 seconds in, you'll find the section about the Reclaim the City, showing them surrounded by the police, the incursion of the fascists (pixelated), the police closing in, the confrontation emerging and then the shooting again, and close ups of him after the shooting.
I'd be surprised if that cop ever walks the street again.
Genoa. Nothing will be forgotten.
No more summers of love.
Tiocfaidh Ar La,
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