Dozens injured after opponents of the Eritrean government stormed a festival, Festival Eritrea Scandinavia, in the Swedish capital organised by regime supporters

Neither the first time nor the first place this happened: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/eritrea-festival-giessen-100.html

(Edit: here's an english source: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-26-officers-injured-at-eritrean-festival-police/a-66165991 )

Riots in Giessen

125 criminal charges after Eritrea festival. Status: 09.07.2023 21:24 Uhr

26 injured police officers, 131 people temporarily in custody, 125 criminal charges: That is the balance of the police after the riots on Saturday on the fringes of the Eritrea Festival in Giessen. After the riots on the fringes of the Eritrea Festival in Giessen, 125 criminal charges have been filed so far. According to the police, these were almost exclusively cases of breach of the peace. 131 people were taken into custody. 26 police officers were injured, it was said in the evening in the preliminary balance. The originally stated number of 28 injured was thus corrected slightly downward. According to current information, no one was seriously injured among the visitors and opponents of the festival.Regardless of the riots on Saturday, the festival was continued on Sunday. It remained calm. On Saturday, opponents of the event had attacked police officers with stones and bottles and set off smoke bombs. They broke through barriers and tried to get onto the festival grounds. The police officers used pepper spray and batons. There were also clashes with the police in the city.

Courts had lifted festival ban

The city had tried to prevent the festival. However, the administrative courts lifted the ban. The organizer of the festival was the Central Council of Eritreans in Germany, which is controversial because of its proximity to the regime in the country on the Horn of Africa. Already in August 2022, there had been violent riots with injured visitors and police officers at the previous event.This year, there had been calls in social media to prevent the event by force, the police said. These were directed against the visitors of the event and against the police. [...]In Eritrea, President Isayas Afewerki rules the country in a one-party dictatorship. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are severely restricted. As recently as March, the UN had sounded the alarm about the "catastrophic" human rights situation. Many people flee Eritrea, for example, to escape the long military service. According to the German Foreign Office, about 70,000 Eritrean nationals live in Germany. According to the Federal Agency for Civic Education, the Eritrean government tries to influence young Eritreans abroad with a youth department abroad and to collect donations at festivals, among other things. Opponents of the Eritrean regime consider the festival in Giessen a propaganda event of the country's government.

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