Ocean racers under arrest for assaulting a police officer – Today’s News

     
     
     
 
 
     
 

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Nine months at sea was too much for two of the offshore racing sailors in the Volvo Ocean Race. Now they sit under arrest on suspicion of assaulting a police officer after a real fight inside the party area in Gothenburg.

                     
                 

         
 
         
         

             
                 
                 
                 

                     

 

Nine months at sea was too much for two of the offshore racing sailors in the Volvo Ocean Race. Now they sit under arrest on suspicion of assaulting a police officer after a real fight inside the party area in Gothenburg.

It was not even eight on Monday evening when the two sailors reportedly to DN must have fallen afoul of a tavern bill at the so-called Banana Pier, South Frihamnspiren, inside the large event area in Gothenburg.

It was only hours after the sailors back of the net for the nine-month long, grueling offshore race around Earth, the Volvo Ocean Race, the VOR.

 
        
             

     
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– You can imagine that their physical and mental fatigue may have played a role in what happened, says one of DN’s sources.

Two security guards intervened against världsomseglarna and ended with as well arrest, handcuffed and eventually the arrest of the two men.

The two security guards will have been damaged relief, one of them was taken to the hospital.

Fabian Bengtsson, press officer for the VOR, told the newspaper GP that the event will continue as planned. He could not answer whether the sailors will participate in Saturday’s so-called in-port race in the port of Gothenburg is not clear.