{"id":937823,"date":"2021-10-29T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=937823"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:43:56","slug":"dozens-charged-in-connection-with-violent-blm-riot-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-charged-in-connection-with-violent-blm-riot-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Charged in Connection with Violent BLM Riot in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdozens-charged-in-connection-with-violent-blm-riot-in-sweden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=937823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1218181448-e1635447593774-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A total of 36 people have been charged by Swedish prosecutors in connection with a Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstration last year in Gothenburg that escalated into a riot.<\/p>\n<p>The group of 36 people are charged with a number of crimes connected to the violence that took place on June 7th of last year, including violent rioting, sabotage of emergency services operations, vandalism, violence against a public official, and charges of assault.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The incidents of violence took place after the BLM demonstration when the organiser ended the event after speaking with the police. Prosecutors say that the situation then descended into a full-blown riot, broadcaster SVT reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe violence has mainly consisted of participants in the crowd kicking, beating, and throwing stones and other objects at the police and their vehicles,\u201d prosecutor Elisabeth Trouv\u00e9 stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aklagare.se\/nyheter-press\/pressmeddelanden\/2021\/oktober\/36-personer-atalas-efter-demonstration-i-goteborg\/\">press release<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they have at least 145 hours worth of footage from public CCTV cameras as well as police body camera footage, videos posted on social media, and footage from shops in the area. The trial for the 36 people involved is scheduled to start in November.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.7714285714286\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BLM Protester Pleads Guilty to Trying to Burn Cenotaph Flag <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yt415S0ABn\">https:\/\/t.co\/yt415S0ABn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1324652747833044993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the days after the riot, Gothenburg police chief Erik Nord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/06\/08\/gothenburg-police-chief-did-not-forsee-black-lives-matter-riot-coming\/\">admitted<\/a> that he did not foresee the amount of violence that would take place on the day which saw at least 15 to 20 cars set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are quarrelsome people who just wanted riots and that is the most difficult thing a police organisation can face.&nbsp;It took quite a few hours before we had it under control,\u201d Nord stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Gothenburg riot was not the only BLM protest last summer in Sweden. In the multicultural city of Malmo, for example, BLM protestors demanded the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/06\/11\/swedish-black-lives-matter-protesters-demand-abolition-of-police\/\"> abolition of the police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the history of the Swedish police does not have the same relation to slavery as the United States, it is the same structures that have emerged: institutionalised racism, where it is clear who is most persecuted, stopped and controlled, abused, locked up and even murdered,\u201d the leaflet alleged.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9888268156425\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sadiq Khan Gave \u00a3100k in Public Funding to Group Which Besieged Police Station During BLM Unrest <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VIfWtrgwLW\">https:\/\/t.co\/VIfWtrgwLW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1361699104150220805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 36 people have been charged by Swedish prosecutors in connection with a Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstration last year in Gothenburg that escalated into a riot. 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