Posted on 02/21/2017 4:39:44 AM PST by csvset
"We detained a person who was of Swedish nationality," a spokesman for the regional police told AFP.
Barcelona's city hall said the small white truck -- which had dozens of orange gas bottles stacked on the back in plain view -- had been stolen.
There was no indication as yet whether this was an attempted attack or just a plain robbery.
Mireia Ruiz, a woman who saw the truck from her home nearby, said the driver ignored people screaming at him to stop as he sped down the wrong side of a ring road in the popular Spanish Mediterranean resort city.
"When people shouted at him, he would laugh and make offensive gestures with his hand," she told AFP.
Police did not say whether there were any injuries.
Around 20 police officers and at least six police cars were on site, and several gas bottles were lying on the ground, an AFP correspondent said.
The trace of at least one gunshot was visible on the windscreen of the truck, which was small.
Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia reported that the Swedish man had been identified as Joakim Robin Berggren, a 32-year-old man who was according to police sources, suspected of being under the influence of psychotropic drugs.
Berzerker?
Howie Mandel’s crazy clone?
He took a hit of the brown acid ...
Wavy Gravy tried to warm them.....
Yeh, stay away from the brown acid dude.
WEDEN RIOT: Police forced to shoot at protesters as violence erupts - yet PM is in denial
Express.co ^ | 2/21/2017 | Lizzie Stromme
Posted on 2/21/2017, 4:53:05 PM by Roman_War_Criminal
SWEDEN’S capital was plunged into chaos on Monday as police were forced to fire at rioters after violence erupted. The scenes took place just hours after the country’s Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, slammed Donald Trump for claiming Sweden was in crisis as a result of its liberal refugee policy.
Stockholm police were forced to fire a shot into the crowd in the hard-hit suburb of Rinkeby, after a mob of around 30 began attacking officers with rocks.
Violence erupted after the police had tried to arrest a wanted person on the subway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3527625/posts
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.