Three-four horses ran over me "- Swedish Dagbladet Mehdi was one of those who came under police horses. He is a father in his 50s, wearing regular clothes and says that he is never violent. When he tried to help a woman injured in the scuffle popped up from behind the horses, there was no time to react.
– I think it was three or four horses that ran over me. It was very painful, I could barely breathe.
In the end he was helped by other protesters. After the TT meets him, he has the hand and arm in bandages, multiple wounds to the face and back of the head bandage around the upper body and six stitches in the scrotum after one of the horses trampled really bad. The doctors have told us that he probably never will be restored in the hand.
The vast majority ended up in the tumult was in his view, peaceful protesters.
To submit police riders to disperse a crowd in the way that was done on Saturday is very unusual.
– It’s the first time you can see this behavior. What we see in the pictures, that you are riding over people, belongs not commonplace, says Per Engström, head of the order and security at the National Police.
This is precisely how the cavalry was used that has drawn the most attention . Critics talk about the assault after dramatic images of how protesters have been evicted over and ended up under the horses.
According to Hakan Jarborg Eriksson, commanding chief and head of the police operation, police have now reported himself to prosecutors to investigate the incident.
– Therefore I can not comment on the matter further, other than that it is developed methods for how and when to use cavalry to disperse a crowd, for example, if it is about to degenerate into violent riots, he says.
– Here people came to harm, and it’s of course a failure of the police.
Jarborg Eriksson admits that reports of “large paving stones” were thrown at officers may be incorrect.
– I can not say that it was thrown paving stones. But among all that was thrown at officers and police riders, including PET bottles and glass bottles of ammonia, were stones.
Stefan Holgersson, police researchers at Linköping University, sees a pattern of police response when there has been violence in an effort .
– It simply establishes an internal police report against himself, and then explains that no one can tell because there is an ongoing police investigation. After a while, put down the investigation and everything runs out of steam. At least it has historically been “strategy 1A.”
– Since pointing police to the abandoned survey arguments that no errors were made.
Justice Minister Beatrice Ask (M) believes that violent people the crowd is to blame.
– I think you should put the blame on those who want to use violence, masquerading and acting to create an atmosphere of intimidation and violence. Not primarily at those who are trying to secure the right to demonstrate, she says.
During the demonstration were arrested about a dozen people. Seven were arrested, five of them for rioting, violent resistance against the officer and disobedience to the police in various combinations. The two remaining suspects knife against the law and masking the ban.
All except one woman, who was arrested masked and refuse to give their identity, was released the following day. While detained in Gothenburg a person who was in Limhamnsvägen and is suspected of rioting. He was transported to Malmö, where he was arrested.
