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Image header Agence Europe
Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7986
SPECIAL EDITION FOR
EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF GOTHENBURG
15 AND 16 JUNE 2001 /
(eu) eu/summit

Fifteen deplore acts of violence - Persson acknowledges in part lack of preparedness of forces of law and order

Gothenburg, 17/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - "I hope that I shall remember the results of the European Council itself rather than the violence, but for now, it is this violence that I have in mind", declared Swedish President Goran Persson on Friday evening, visibly shaken by the sacking along Gothenburg's main avenue by some 200 trouble-makers, with violence that then continued into the night, and which deeply disturbed the peaceful demonstrations and the attention paid to the Summit itself....