A-Infos (en) Stockholm: Pickled Herring Press Release

["kurt svensson" <ksvensson@hotmail.com>]

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PRESS RELEASE 1 May 1998

Illegal raid of Pickled Herring Lunch at Kafé 44!

On Friday May 1st, Stockholms Police attacked the, by the Swedish 
Anarchist magazine Brand, organised yearly pickled herring lunch at Kafé 
44 on Södermalm.

Kafé 44 is an open-to-the-public café as well as a small bookstore.

The magazine Brand is celebrating it's 100 year anniversary this weekend 
and the pickled herring lunch was the first in a series of events 
launching the Brand Festival which will continue throughout the weekend 
of the 2nd and 3rd of May.
 
The pickled herring lunch is a traditional family affair held on the 
first of May which, since it's beginning, has never been the cause of 
troubles. During the course of the day 500 individuals were served the 
traditional meal. At 17:40, as the days activities were winding to a 
close, the premises were stormed, without warning, by 150 riot police. 
Several individuals were beaten with batons and everyone was forced up 
against the wall, including an eight year old girl. With determined 
consequence the police refused to give an explanation to what was 
happening during the entire procedure. After a harsh and degrading body 
search all of the approximately 100 remaining guests were forced to 
leave the premises. The police have afterwards said that they suspected 
that there were explosives in the space. And of course, after the 
following two hour long search was completed, no explosives were to be 
found.

We look upon the supposed hunt for explosives as nothing more than an 
excuse for the Stockholms Police Corp  to harass people from the 
libertarian left who celebrated the Mayday at Kafé 44.

During this weekends Brand Festival people from the entire country and 
beyond will listen to lectures about the history of the Swedish 
anarchist movement and Brand as well as be entertained by amongst others 
Stefan Sundström, Kajsa Grytt and Theatre Srant. We hope that these 
festivities can continue without further police provocation.

We of course will bring charges of these happenings to Justice Attorney 
and demand economic damages as the police consciously tried to destroy 
our festival. We even demand that the police give a public apology for 
their actions.

The Arranging Collective
Telephone: +46-8-644 53 12


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                    ksvensson@hotmail.com


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