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| 127.1 | That's civilisation | HSK01::MAENNISTOE | Dig it all | Tue Aug 12 1986 17:59 | 5 |
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Finaly we too have got some civilisation over here in Finland... 8-)
Asko
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| 127.2 | Unusual rape case in Sweden | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Thu Sep 11 1986 10:04 | 26 |
| Associated Press Wed 10-SEP-1986 16:14 Sweden-Rape
Woman Held in Rape Case
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A 30-year-old Swedish woman has been arrested
on rape charges, a judge said Wednesday. A newspaper said the alleged
victim was a female friend of the suspect.
Judge Birgitta Agren said the Orebro district court in central Sweden
on Tuesday granted permission to keep the suspect in custody. The judge
would not identify the suspect or comment further on the case. It was
believed to be the first arrest in Sweden of a woman in a rape case.
Sweden's penal code provides for all eventualities in rape cases,
including the prosecution of a woman charged with raping a man and a
woman raping another woman. The minimum penalty for rape is two years
in prison.
The Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet reported without attribution that
the alleged victim in the Orebro case was a female friend of the
suspect. The newspaper said the suspect and a 41-year-old man allegedly
forced themselves on the victim in the man's apartment. The man also is
under arrest.
The female suspect denied all charge, her lawyer, Lars-Olof Rosengren,
told the newspaper. "She is terribly upset," he was quoted as saying.
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| 127.3 | EC referendum riots in Denmark | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed May 19 1993 12:14 | 71 |
| From: [email protected] (BILL LAMP)
Newsgroups: clari.biz.economy.world,clari.news.europe,clari.biz.economy
Subject: Dozens of rioters hospitalized as police fire into crowd
Date: Wed, 19 May 93 6:12:02 PDT
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) -- Dozens were hospitalized Wednesday after
police opened fire on rioting squatters who may have been protesting the
approval of European union in a controversial referendum that has
polarized voters.
Ten rioters were hospitalized shortly after midnight with gunshot
wounds inflicted by police officers firing real slugs to protect
colleagues downed by thrown cobblestones, police officials said. Three
of the ten were injured seriously with gunshot wounds.
Twenty-four police officers were hospitalized, and one of them was
unconscious and in serious condition after being struck in the face and
neck by a stone, a spokesman said.
Danes, who pride themselves on their country's low rate of violent
crime, appeared shocked at the incident, calling it "un-Danish." In a
front-page article, the daily Jyllands-Posten described the incident as
"Ragnarok," the version of Armageddon found in Scandinavian myth.
Police alleged the violence was planned, not spontaneous.
Officials said rioters used weapons, including 4-foot steel spears
shown to journalists. The demonstrators also allegedly threw Molotov
cocktails and large stones they had in secret caches.
Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen denounced the demonstration as
"totally unacceptable," and added it was an "isolated, tragic"
event.
The incident began just after 10 p.m. Tuesday night, just after the
result of the referendum became clear on television.
Someone placed a call to the city fire department claiming an
apartment in the west Copenhagen neighborhood of Noerreport was ablaze,
a police spokesman said. When fire department vehicles arrived, however,
they found the road barricaded by about 300 "squatters."
Police wearing riot gear arrived and immediately came under a heavy
barrage of cobblestones and metal bars partly taken from a nearby
construction site, the spokesman said.
"It was clearly a trap for the police," he said. "This was planned
in protest over the referendum because they know the world press is in
town." Rasmussen also said the violence was planned.
Thrown projectiles knocked several police officers to the ground and
the rioters rushed the downed men, the spokesman said. The police fired
several warning shots, and when those went unheeded, the officers fired
into the crowd.
The two sides fought running battles for hours. As the violence
escalated, the rioters overturned and burned cars, and pitched rocks
through shop windows. Between 20 and 30 of the rioters were arrested.
The rioters are called squatters in Denmark because they have
occupied buildings and refused to pay rent. The squatters, known for
their anarchist views, are normally tolerated by police with the
understanding that violence is avoided.
Anne-Mette Moeller, deputy director of police in Copenhagen, said
shooting demonstrators is "very un-Danish," but was necessary because
"the lives of police were in danger."
She said rioters had clearly planned the incident in advance,
amassing caches of spears, stones and Molotov cocktails. Moeller also
said the "aggressiveness" of the attack had taken police by surprise.
On Tuesday Danes voted 56.8 percent to 43.2 to approve the Maastricht
Treaty on European Union.
The treaty would create a common European currency as well as joint
foreign and defense policies for the 12 members of the European
Community. It must be ratified by all 12 members of the EC to come into
force and awaits approval by Britain.
Rasmussen insisted the incident was an isolated one. "The riots in
inner Copenhagen were the worst we have had in many, many years," he
said, but "those who voted 'no' had nothing to do with this."
Danes expressed shock, dismay or indifference.
"It is a shock for Danes," 26-year-old Malene Demintri said. "We
are not used to violence, and I've never in my life heard of police
shooting at a crowd."
She said the nation was accustomed to occasional small-scale violence
from squatters, but not what hit Copenhagen Tuesday night.
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| 127.4 | Rushdie's publisher shot | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Oct 11 1993 15:06 | 31 |
| From: [email protected] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.law.crime.violent,clari.news.europe,
clari.news.religion,clari.news.terrorism
Subject: Salman Rushie's publisher shot
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 93 8:00:05 PDT
OSLO (UPI) -- The publisher whose firm translated Salman Rushdie's
book "The Satanic Verses" into Norwegian was shot outside his home in
Oslo Monday, police said.
Police said the publisher William Nygaard of the Aschehoug Forlag
publishing house was seriously wounded. He was rushed to a hospital for
an emergency operation after being shot three times in the back outside
his home.
Authorities began searching for the unidentified gunman or gunmen by
increasing surveillance of airports, harbors and border crossings to
Sweden.
Rushdie's book, first published in Britain Sept. 26, 1988, spawned
outrage and protests among Muslims worldwide for its fictionalized
portrayal of a Mohamed-like prophet with human failings.
Four months later the book became the No. 1 bestseller on the Times
of London list and went on to win a number of literary awards.
On Feb. 14, 1989, Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini decreed the book to be against Islam and that "all involved in
its publication, are sentenced to death."
Four days later, Rushdie issued an apology recognizing that "many
parts of the world are genuinely distressed by the publication of my
novel." But Iran has not rescinded the death order, even after the
death of Khomeini, and has since increased a reward for his slaying to
$2 million.
Rushdie went into hiding and scheduled no public appearances until
June 25, 1992.
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| 127.5 | Ace of Base singer attacked | TLE::SAVAGE | | Fri Apr 29 1994 13:44 | 21 |
| From: [email protected] (Reuters)
Newsgroups: clari.world.europe.northern,clari.world.europe.western
Subject: Swedish Pop Star Attacked by German Fan
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 3:00:11 PDT
STOCKHOLM (Reuter) - Swedish pop star Jenny Berggren, a
singer with rock band Ace of Base, was attacked at her home by a
knife-wielding German female fan, the singer said.
Berggren, whose group's songs "The Sign" and "Happy
Nation" have been number one hits around the world this year, was
unharmed in the attack Wednesday, although her mother received
stab wounds to her hand.
Berggren told Swedish Television Thursday evening the woman
fan had been camped outside her home in Gothenburg, western
Sweden for two days.
Early Wednesday morning the 21-year-old woman broke into the
house where Berggren lives with her parents and forced the
singer to her parents' room, where they overcame the German
after a struggle.
Police said the woman was due to appear in court Friday
charged with assault.
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| 127.6 | Increase in facist outbursts | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed May 04 1994 15:44 | 40 |
| From: [email protected] (Reuters)
Newsgroups: clari.world.europe.northern,clari.world.europe.western,
clari.news.crime.misc,clari.news.law.crime
Subject: Skinheads Carve Swastika on Swedish Woman's Face
Date: Tue, 3 May 94 11:20:55 PDT
STOCKHOLM (Reuter) - Three skinheads attacked the teenaged
leader of a political youth group and carved a swastika on her
cheek with a razor, police said Tuesday.
Lars-Ove Carlsson, a policeman in Boden, northern Sweden,
told Reuters the attack on Helena Hakansdotter occurred as the
18-year-old was walking home at night and encountered three men.
One asked her the time and then said "you damn socialist
pig, we are going to mark you." "All three of them grabbed her
and pushed her against a wall while one of them took out a razor
and carved a swastika on her right cheek," Carlsson said.
Hakansdotter is head of the Social Democrats' youth
organization (SSU) in Boden.
"The girl was wearing an SSU jacket, she was politically
active, and it was probably this that prompted the attack,"
Carlsson said. The incident took place early Sunday after
Hakansdotter had been to a restaurant.
Police have not found the men, who were in their 20s, and
could not say whether they were affiliated to any Nazi groups.
Swedish evening newspapers carried pictures of the young
woman showing the 3-inch swastika on her cheek. The men had also
made some razor cuts in her other cheek.
In separate cases in Germany this year two women who
reported similar attacks were later found to have fabricated
their stories.
In January a 17-year-old handicapped girl from the eastern
city of Halle said neo-Nazis carved a swastika on her face. The
girl later said she had invented the story.
In April a 20-year-old Berlin woman who told authorities
that neo-Nazis carved a swastika on her body with a razor blade
admitted she faked the assault.
Sweden has seen an increase in right-wing incidents at a
time when unemployment is running high and immigrants have been
flowing into the country. Vandals have overturned headstones at
Jewish cemeteries and painted them with swastikas.
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| 127.7 | Swedish infantry officer goes on shooting spree | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Jun 15 1994 11:11 | 16 |
| To: International Swedish Interest discussion list
<[email protected]>
From: Torkel Franzen <[email protected]>
Subj: The shootings in Falun
You may have heard about it. What happened was that a junior officer
at an infantry regiment in Falun flipped his lid after being kicked
out of a pub. In the middle of the night he took his AK5 service
automatic and shot six young women returning to the regiment from a
night on the town, killing five of them. He then walked on into town,
killing a cyclist and a security guard that he happened to meet. About
an hour after the first murders he was wounded by police fire and
taken into custody. He is described as having been mediocre as a cadet
except in the area of weapons, in which he took a very great interest.
He fired 146 rounds, most of which he must have hoarded illicitly.
This was the first event of its kind in Sweden.
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| 127.8 | She'd 'had enough' | TLE::SAVAGE | | Fri Jun 24 1994 17:24 | 24 |
| STOCKHOLM, June 24 (Reuter) - A woman stabbed her
partner dead with a pair of scissors after he forced her to
stay awake in the early hours for a World Cup soccer match,
a Swedish newspaper reported on Friday.
Aftonbladet said the killing happened during Sweden's
opening game against Cameroun on Monday night.
The couple went to a friend's house in Stockholm to
watch the match on television.
It did not start until 1.30 a.m. Swedish time and the
53-year-old woman fell asleep in a kitchen while her
partner, also 53, and two other men watched the match and
drank spirits.
When Sweden scored a goal, Aftonbladet said, the man
woke his partner up and told her she should not be asleep
during the game. The man refused to let her leave the house
and the woman became increasingly irritated.
After an argument, the woman stabbed her partner with
a pair of scissors. "I knew I wouldn't see him again, I'd
had enough," the daily quoted her as telling police.
After the killing, the woman fell asleep. The two
other football fans did not notice what had happened and
continued watching the match, falling asleep after the
game.
Police said the woman has been charged with murder.
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| 127.9 | Rare prison riot ends | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Jul 25 1994 15:22 | 23 |
| ========================================================================
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A 12-hour standoff between rioting
prisoners and guards ended this morning after a ``show of force''
by authorities and mediation by several inmates.
Officials said about 115 of the 165 prisoners took part in the
mutiny at the Tidaholm Prison, some 200 miles southwest of
Stockholm.
The inmates refused to return to their cells at lock-up time
Friday night to protest the solitary confinement given three
prisoners after a fight earlier in the day.
The rioters climbed onto the roof of a workshop and threatened
staff, who pulled back. The inmates also set fire to a workshop, a
guard house and a school on the prison grounds.
Police reinforcements were sent from Stockholm and elsewhere
and order was restored this morning. No one was injured.
Prison director Dag Branfeldt said several inmates helped
mediate an end to the standoff.
``No violence was needed, it was a show of force in connection
with negotiations where we set the terms,'' police spokesman Bo
Kellerth said.
Tension has been running high at the prison. An unidentified
prisoner interviewed on national radio complained about
overcrowding.
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| 127.10 | Killer (.7) sentenced | TLE::SAVAGE | | Tue Sep 27 1994 11:08 | 20 |
| FALUN, Sweden (AP) -- An army officer who killed seven people
in the worst violent crime in modern Swedish history was convicted of
murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison Tuesday.
Mattias Flink, 24, opened fire with an assault rifle during a
drunken spree in this central Swedish town on June 11. The
shootings also seriously injured a young woman and slightly wounded
two others.
Flink's rampage prompted a renewed look at the causes of
violence in Sweden, where killings are relatively rare.
The sentence by the district court in Falun is expected to be
appealed by defense attorney Gunnar Lundgren. He has argued that
Flink needs psychiatric care.
Five of those killed were young women from a voluntary army
auxiliary corps, while two men who were passing by at the time were
also slain.
Medical experts who examined Flink have given conflicting
reports on his mental health.
The officer said during the trial that he only had fragmentary
memories of what he had done.
Chief prosecutor Goran Kyhle had asked for life imprisonment.
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| 127.11 | 5-year-old beaten and abandoned by playmates | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Oct 19 1994 13:38 | 21 |
| From: Tim Dudley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Trondheim 5-yr old girl killed by kids??
Date: 19 Oct 1994 15:10:03 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
The Montreal Gazette reported this morning (Oct. 19) that 5-year old
Silje Marie Redergard was kicked, stoned, and beaten in a Trondheim
playground by two 6-year olds and a 5-year old, and left in the snow
where she froze to death. The report says that all four kids were
fans of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and that TV-3 has dropped the
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from its broadcasts in Norway, Sweden,
and Denmark, in response to debate over violence in children's tv
shows.
The three boys are too young to be charged with any crime under
Norwegian law.
What's the news on this from Norway?
Tim
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| 127.12 | Letter bomb destroyed at Norway's largest newspaper | TLE::SAVAGE | | Tue Nov 22 1994 13:15 | 14 |
| OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A pro-European Union editor at Norway's
largest newspaper received a suspected letter bomb this weekend,
but destroyed the package without any injuries, the NRK radio
network reported.
Political editor Olav Versto of the Oslo newspaper Verdens Gang
confirmed the report by telephone but refused all other comment.
NRK said the bomb arrived in the mail on Saturday, but that
Verto became suspicious and set fire to the package in his yard.
Police collected what was left for examination. It was not
clear who sent the package and there was no immediate confirmation that
the package did contain a bomb.
Norway's debate prior to its Nov. 28 referendum on EU
membership has been heated, and Versto has been an outspoken supporter
of membership.
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| 127.13 | Sadly, bad role models from USA kids' TV | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Nov 23 1994 10:10 | 24 |
| STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Police were questioning two teen-age
brothers Tuesday in the beating death of a schoolmate in southern
Sweden.
The slaying in the town of Bjuv rekindled a debate on
television violence that led one Scandinavian network to suspend the
American children's show ``Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' after a
5-year-old Norwegian girl was killed by playmates last month.
The body of the 15-year-old boy, identified only as Thomas, was
found early Monday behind the school by a school janitor.
Authorities suspect he was killed with a large brick because his
face was so badly disfigured.
Police detained two of the boys' acquaintances, 16-year-old and
17-year-old brothers, who were last seen with Thomas on Sunday
evening, Swedish media reported.
The killing came about a month after the Norwegian girl was
beaten unconscious and left to freeze to death by young playmates
who were fans of the U.S. cartoon ``Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.''
No link to television was ever proven. But the Scandinavian
network TV-3 dropped the wildly popular ``Power Rangers'' from
broadcast in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Like ``Ninja Turtles,'' the show centers on likable characters
who pummel their opponents with fists and weapons.
The network has promised to bring the show back but later than
the previous starting time of 6 p.m.
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| 127.14 | Home-made bombs in Copenhagen | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Dec 19 1994 09:11 | 24 |
| COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Police said Sunday that an
explosive device that detonated outside an annex of the Danish parliament
could be linked to another blast earlier this weekend.
A bomb made of explosive powder stuffed into a metal tube
exploded Saturday evening outside the Royal Stables in Copenhagen.
The building constitutes a part of the Christiansborg Castle which
houses the parliament.
The blast slightly damaged a porch roof. A teenager was spotted
running away from the scene.
In the morning, a violent explosion shook a downtown Copenhagen
street, shattering up to 300 windows but causing no injuries. An
elderly woman was treated for shock.
A 26-year-old man was briefly detained in connection with the
first explosion.
``We cannot exclude the same type of explosive was used in both
cases,'' said police spokesman Erik Kjaergaard, adding that there
was no apparent motive.
There are speculations that the blasts are nothing but
adolescent pranks.
``If that is the case, it makes us nervous to know that there
are youngsters out there handling dangerous explosives,''
Kjaergaard said.
Police investigated possible links to a theft last weekend when
large quantities of fire works were stolen north of Copenhagen.
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| 127.15 | Re:.3: Copenhagen again | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Jan 04 1995 11:49 | 39 |
| From: [email protected] (Andy Brown)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Copenhagen protests
Date: 3 Jan 1995 19:53:15 GMT
Organization: Elect & Comp Engineering, U of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada
I have some more info on the riots in Copenhagen, for anyone that's
interested.
In the wee hours of New Years Day, about 400 left-wing protesters broke
into a McDonald's, and torched all the furniture in a bonfire out on
the street. They targeted McDonald's as a symbol of capitalist excess.
In addition they smashed windows, vandalised nearby banks and shops,
and threw cobblestones at riot police who had to disperse the crowd
with tear gas. Police arrested 7 people.
The riot took place in N�rrebro, a suburb near the center of
Copenhagen, generally a poorer, blue-collar area. (Not comparable with
any American inner city.) According to the report I read, New Years Eve
hooliganism has become a bit of a tradition in downtown Copenhagen, and
I recall something similar happening a couple of years ago after the
second referendum on the EU returned a Yes vote. (The only two times
that Denmark has made it on CNN ;-) ) It seems that the left wing
radicals in this particular area of Copenghagen like to express their
opinions by setting things on fire, although I suspect that the
sometimes heavy handed Copenhagen PD could add to the volatile mix.
That's my two cents. Cheers.
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Andrew Brown
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
e-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~abrown/andy-homepage.html
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| 127.16 | Neo-Nazis in Oslo | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Feb 20 1995 09:07 | 45 |
| Police Smash Norwegian Neo-Nazi Headquarters
On Saturday, February 11, 76 neo-nazis were arrested in a
police raid in Oslo in the most dramatic police action against
the right-wing in Norway since the war.
The boneheads had rented a 200 square meter house under the
name 'Aker Kulturverksted' and told the owner of the building
that they were a non-violent cultural organisation interested in
Norwegian culture. They told the owner that they wanted to rent
the house for activities such as folk dance and Bible studies.
Anti-fascists in Oslo had started the work to drive the
neo-nazis out of the building, and on Saturday, February 11, a
demonstration was held outside the building in order to protest
against this nazi-nest in the middle of Oslo. The fascists were
protected by the police and the crowd of more then 500 anti-
fascists were watching as the neo-nazis chanted "Sieg Heil!" and
hurled objects at them. The neo-nazis carried sticks, shields,
and posters with slogans such as "Racial War" and "Commie
bastards go home". The peaceful demonstration was met with
fire-crackers, stones, and molotovs thrown by masked neo-nazis
inside the building.
The owner of the building then declared that enough was
enough and told the police to empty the building. The neo-nazis
refused to leave the premises, so the police raided the building
and sprayed tear gas to get the neo-nazis out. After the police
had smashed all the windows and filled the house with tear gas,
the neo-nazis phoned the police and said that they wanted to
surrender peacefully. It was too late for that and the police
carried them out one by one and laid the 76 thugs handcuffed side
by side on the ground. The police found piles of nazi
publications and leaflets inside, in addition to several T-shirts
from the Swedish VAM-organisation.
Several well-known racists were arrested, among them Boot
Boys leader Ole Krogstad and the editor of a racist monthly
paper, Michael Knutsen. Some of the arrested boys were as young
as 13-years-old and belonged to the Oslo-based bonehead group
Viking.
The owner of the building made it quite clear that the house
was once and for all closed to the neo-nazis.
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| 127.17 | Helsinki police HQ car-bombed | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Aug 28 1995 12:53 | 37 |
| From: [email protected] (Eugene Holman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Main police building in Helsinki carbombed!
Date: 25 Aug 1995 12:30:04 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
A powerful car-bomb destroyed a part of the Helsinki police
headquarters at Pasila at 0.33 this morning (Aug. 28). Luckily, only
one person, a policeman on duty was injured, and he only slightly. The
entire area was shaken by the blast, which was clearly heard and felt
several kilometers away, and hundreds of windows were shattered in
Pasila, a densely built-up area of Helsinki full of high-rise office
buildings, including police headquarters, the municipal court, and the
Finnish Broadcasting System facilities, as well as residential blocks.
The automobile in which the bomb was hidden had been parked 25 meters
away from police headquarters and was totally destroyed. News reports
say that being parked so far from the building, the car was able to
inflict severe damage while evading detection by the surveillance
cameras. According to the evening newspaper Ilta-Sanomat "During the
past few years two or three car bombs have exploded in Helsinki.
Nevertheless, complete silence has been maintained about these
explosions."
As of now, the police have not wanted to speculate openly about who
they suspect might be responsible for the attack. Newspapers have
wanted to point a finger at warring motorcycle gangs, two members of
which are being held at the police jail in Pasila for a trial
scheduled to start tomorrow. According to a 15:00 newscast which I
just heard, the police are busily combing the area of the blast for
fragments of the car and a taskforce of several hundred officers has
been assigned to investigate the case.
Regards,
Eugene Holman
(who lives a few blocks away from Pasila and was awakened by the blast)
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| 127.18 | History of Biker Gangs in Denmark | TLE::SAVAGE | | Tue Oct 15 1996 11:40 | 62 |
| 127.19 | More about violence in Denmark 1996 | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Oct 16 1996 12:42 | 36
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