According to Aftonbladet, at least three people were taken to the hospital.
Set masked people rushed to a lecture organized by parties in southern Stockholm on Wednesday, apparently with smoke bombs, Swedish media reports SVT, Today’s News and The evening paper. According to the media, the organizers of the event are from the local branch of the Swedish Left Party and the Environmental Party.
Information about the exact events was unclear soon after the incident. The chairman of the Farsta Left Party interviewed by SVT Anders Carlsson Lindin according to the case, at least one smoke bomb would have been used.
Dozens of people had come to listen to the lecture at the Moment theater in the Gubbängen district of Stockholm when the incident happened.
“Some red smoke was spreading in the farm. Then everyone started running, someone got hit in the face and after that I didn’t see anymore. It was all over pretty soon,” said a member of the local branch of the Left Party who was there Laura Roselli Today’s news story.
The smoke also made it difficult to breathe, said the party’s local activist who organized the event Margareta Olofsson Aftonbladetille.
According to Aftonbladet, three people were taken to the hospital because of the incident. It was not immediately known what kind of injuries it might have been.
Olofsson told of two people taken to the hospital, one of whom, according to him, had been sprayed with smoke in the face and the other had gotten something in his eyes.
An employee of the theater interviewed by SVT said that he had heard that red color had been sprayed on people’s faces.
Police investigates the case as causing danger to others and disturbing public order.
The local organization of the left-wing party Farsta, which organized the anti-fascist event, commented on the matter on Facebook and blamed the situation on the extreme right.
“Gubbäng’s theater was attacked by fascists who threw smoke bombs into the hall.”
The police did not immediately confirm the claims about the suspected perpetrators.
Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson condemned the attack.
“Such disgusting acts have no place in our free and open society,” he told news agency TT.