Protesters in Stockholm Attack Iranian Embassy

NDNdancer · 06-26-09, 12:23 PM

Tweeters announced this over an hour ago. Here seems to be confirmation.

Protesters attack Iranian embassy in Sweden | Top AP Stories | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

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STOCKHOLM — Demonstrators attacked the Iranian Embassy outside the Swedish capital Friday, throwing stones and trying to force themselves in, police said.

About 150 protesters, some masked, rushed the embassy gates, but it was not immediately clear if any managed to get inside the building, police said.

NDNdancer · 06-26-09, 12:58 PM

Report from Stockholm via Google translator

Google Translate

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Ten or twenty demonstrators broke through the fence, entered the embassy area. Then came some from inside the area, came forward påkar and began to turn on the demonstrators, "said Roya Hakimnia, 24-year-old läkarstudent participating in the demonstration.

She saw himself more persons, men and women, be hit by truncheon kind, but says that no one seems to have been seriously damaged.

Khayembii Communique · 06-26-09, 02:14 PM

There was an unconfirmed report that someone was stabbed, but I don't think it's true.

This action really is incredible.

NDNdancer · 06-26-09, 06:47 PM

Protestors break into Iranian embassy in Sweden - Haaretz - Israel News

Quote:

Angry demonstrators broke into the Iranian Embassy outside Stockholm on Friday, climbing in through shattered windows and injuring one embassy worker, police said.

More than 150 people had gathered outside the embassy to protest against the Iranian regime, when some of them attacked the building with rocks and tore down a fence to enter the embassy grounds, police spokesman Ulf Hoglund said.

"A few managed to climb through broken windows into the building," Hoglund said.
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He said one member of the embassy staff was injured inside the building, but didn't know how seriously.

Fifty police officers and an ambulance were dispatched to the scene. Hoglund said police had evicted the demonstrators from the building and arrested one person.

Hakimnia’s Twitter feed provided live tweets from the scene in Stockholm.

royah (Stockholm, Sweden) ambassaden är stormad! (embassy is a storm!) 26 Jun 2009 from dabr
royah (Stockholm, Sweden) embassy staff personal hit several protesters with batons and electricity shocks at the iranian embassy in stockholm #iranelection 26 Jun 2009 from dabr
royah (Stockholm, Sweden) the protesters stormed the embassy broke the wondows and got in to the embassy 60 demonstrators got in 26 Jun 2009 from dabr
royah (Stockholm, Sweden) 60 year old was shot with electricity gun. Order came from the consuln she says stockholm #iranelection 26 Jun 2009 from dabr
royah (Stockholm, Sweden) leaving iran embassy sweden for uploading video from the brutality, still >200 persons here chanting slogans #iranelection #iran 26 Jun 2009 from dabr
royah (Stockholm, Sweden) it was probably around 20 - 30 people inside the fences, not 60 as i accidently tweeted before #iranelection 26 Jun 2009 from dabr

I couldn't find any reports of a stabbing. Here's an eyewitness account from a tweeter.

NDNdancer · 06-26-09, 07:14 PM

Videos from the riot:

Films from the demonstration for Iran in Stockholm 25/6 Roya – Intersektionalen

A protester threw a molotov cocktail at the outter walls of the embassy:

Iranian embassy protest 19 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

More photos of the protest
Iranian embassy protest in Bern 26.06.2009 - a set on Flickr

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