[WSF-Discuss] Violent demonstration in Malmö tonight

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Violent demonstration in Malmö tonight National News | 2008-09-19

*Between September 17 and 21, the European Social Forum (ESF) is going on in
Malmö in South Sweden. Many seminars are held but there has also been a
violent demonstration arranged by **Reclaim the Streets. *

European Social Forum <http://www.esf2008.org/> wants to be an alternative
to World Economic Forum <http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm> which is a
yearly summit with top politicians and leaders from the business world and
other sectors.

ESF describes their mission on their homepage as follows: "The forum is by
far the biggest meeting place for social movements and a progressive civil
society in Europe - with the aim to create a better Europe and a better
world".

Most of the arrangements are peaceful seminars, workshops and demonstrations
arranged by a broad spectra of organisations from the far left to human
right organisations but there have also been violent groups present.

During Friday night, 2000 people from Reclaim the Streets arranged a
demonstration, without permission from the police. At some point they
started to throw bottles and stones at the police according to Dagens
Nyheter. DN also writes that they broke a window to a bank. A man who got
glass all over him then started to throw back stones at the demonstrators.
The man was then abused and hit to the ground.

Svenska Dagbladet writes that other activists were also arrested during the
day, for example eleven peace activists who protested against the company
Aimpoints who is selling products to the US army. Some of the activists
tried to get into the company´s premises and some were arrested for
thrashing.


Tommie Ullman

tommie.ullman at stockholmnews.com
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