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February 23, 2012
Firemen injured by projectile rocks
Published: 29 Aug 09 10:25 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/21760/20090829/
Disturbances related to several fires continued on Friday night in Gothenburg in western Sweden.
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Rocks were also thrown at emergency response workers. On the way to a fire in the neighbourhood of Gällbo, a firetruck was hit by a large rock that broke the windshield. Two firemen were injured.
“One guy had glass splinters in his eye and another had an injured arm,” Bo Holmlund of the greater Gothenburg Fire and Rescue Service (Räddningstjänsten Storgöteborg) told TT news agency.
The firemen were treated on the scene by paramedics and were then taken to the hospital, but neither of them were seriously injured.
Two cars caught fire on Friday night in the neighbourhood of Västra Frölunda in Gothenburg. Police said that when they arrived a lot of people were out on the street to see what had happened.
“The fire had evidently started in one car and then spread to the other,” Persson said.
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The govt *has* to grow a pair or these "groups" are just going to get more daring, ignoring the crazies is not going to make them go away.
I wonder what its going to take before the govt decides enough is enough? 1 dead? 10? 100?
Why on earth didn't the police arrest those stone throwers? Fire fighters are going about their duty, trying to put out a fire & save lives only to be set upon by some undesirable elements. I wish the police had arrested them all instead of dispersing them.
Swedes, a country is only as great as its people/leaders, please don't allow such terrible acts to continue, nip it in the bud. Proper jail time with hard labour is good for a start. Long live Sweden
this is always common with muslims where ever they are in the world.
Yes the Police should be more pro-active in stopping gang violence.
So many of the posts on this subject just assume that the culprits are Muslims,and all crime in Sweden is carried out by Muslims.
WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE
PUT UP OR SHUT UP
of the early 21 st Century. Another possibility is for large numbers of Swedes to
volunteer to live in Israel for a period of time so that they may be awakened from their 200 year slumber in magic fairyland. Of course, the other alternative is for the Norwegians to revert back to their old Viking ways of 1100 years ago,and stage
attacks of murder and plunder throughout Sweden. Whatever it takes.