Updated 13.15 | Published 13.02
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full screen The Manifestation in Gubbängen in Stockholm. Photo: Andreas Bardell
Thousands of people today joined a support demonstration after Wednesday’s attack in Gubbängen.
The Green Party’s likely next mouthpiece did not mince words:
— It was an act of terrorism and it can never be accepted.
Thousands of people have gathered in Gubbängstorget in an anti-fascist demonstration after Wednesday’s attack on the Moment Theater, when several masked men stormed a political meeting and threw smoke bombs.
According to witnesses, the men allegedly also abused participants and sprayed them with paint on their faces.
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Expo and the Left Party believe that the perpetrators were Nazis.
— We will not back down, we will not yield an inch to the far-right. We will stand up for everyone’s equal value, says S leader Magdalena Andersson, who spoke during the demonstration.
Amanda Lind, who tomorrow is expected to be elected as the new spokesperson for the Green Party, believes “that a limit has been crossed”.
— It was an act of terrorism and it can never be accepted. It was an attack on our open democratic society, she says.
“We stick together”
Two of the visitors to the event were Tess Asplund and Sandra Eriksson.
– We are here to show that we are more than them. That the fight continues and that we mark solidarity. We stick together, says Tess Asplund, whose opposition to NMR in Borlänge on May Day became world news in 2016.
Their friends were beaten at the meeting on Wednesday.
– Anyone who wants to get involved in different ways against racism and for everyone’s equal value should not have to be afraid that they will be abused. It does not belong in a modern and open democratic society, says Sandra Eriksson.
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Tess Asplund and Sandra Eriksson.
1 / 4Photo: Andreas Bardell