Swedish "non-violent" football fan killed on season opening day

[Linus]

Swedish soccer match called off after man dies amid fan fighting

 

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish soccer league match was called off during the first half Sunday after a man died following fighting among fans before the game.

 

The 43-year-old Djurgarden fan was found "seriously injured" about 2:30 p.m. in central Helsingborg in southern Sweden, police said. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.

 

He reportedly had been hit in the head by an object. Swedish media said Djurgarden fans stormed the field after word spread that the man had died.

 

Police did not release his name and said no arrests had been made.

 

"The Djurgarden family is in mourning," the Stockholm club said in a statement. "We can't describe in words how we're feeling right now."

 

Helsingborg said on its website, "We feel an enormous emptiness." It added that Swedish soccer is "united in the fight" against violence.

 

The game between Helsingborg and Djurgarden was called off in the 41st minute with the score 1-1 (after the Djurgården fans invaded the pitch as the word spread of the mans death)

 

The death overshadowed the opening round of the Swedish league season, which runs from March to November, with politicians, players and clubs calling for an end to fan violence.

 

Hooligan fighting is still common in Sweden, but this was the first fatal fan violence since 2002, when a 26-year-old man was killed in Stockholm during clashes between supporters of AIK and IFK Goteborg.

 

Former Arsenal and Sweden midfielder Fredrik Ljungberg tweeted that "I feel sick" over the death.

 

Henrik Larsson, a former Celtic, Barcelona and Manchester United striker who played for Helsingborg in the Swedish league and now coaches the second-division club Falkenberg, told the newspaper Expressen the violence has to stop.

 

"It's time we do something about this," Larsson said. "We can't send our children to the arenas and not have them come home again."

 

Former UEFA President Lennart Johansson, a Swede, said fan violence is a matter for both Swedish authorities and European soccer's ruling body.

 

"The evil forces have to go away," Johansson told Expressen. "We have to find clearer measures through a co-operation between clubs, police and authorities."

 

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[Linus]

Relatives: He did not want to get into trouble (google translated)

 

Loads of pictures in the article - Click here

 

The deceased 43 -year-old and his brother wanted to avoid trouble - because they went behind the large group of supporters.

Because of the crowd outside the stadium , it was there, and not at the stairs , as the police was when the fatal beating occurred .

- He left behind all the others to not get in trouble, says a relative of the man .

 

The 43 -year-old dead four children father loved football. The man was part of an old group of friends that nourished a common passion for the sport.

According to her , there was a reason that the man and his brother came after the large group of supporters.

- He left behind all the others to not get in trouble up ahead , she says.

- He was not like that.

"Fell hard and hit his head on the street "

Just a button minutes after the man been beaten up in Helsingborg yesterday arrived two other Djurgården supporters to the site.

- He lay very still on the ground and his brother lying beside him and screamed for help. We ran back and tried to calm him down , he shouted to his brother with a bottle in the head, one of them says .

Another witness Aftonbladet talked to says that she saw the shattered glass on the ground.

Scout leader Caroline Äspinge do not want to confirm that a bottle used as a weapon but her description attesting witnesses' experiences.

- A person handed violence against the victim's head , he fell hard and hit his head on the street , she said earlier in the day to Aftonbladet.

In place when the ambulance arrived

The two witnesses , declare to Aftonbladet that 43 -year-old was completely unresponsive .

- He had his eyes open but he did not blink . There was blood and a lot of glass fragments on the site.

Shortly afterwards arrived the first ambulance.

- I was surprised because when we arrived, before the ambulance got there, I understood that it was almost not any people at all on the site.

The witness says that it " felt like an eternity " before paramedics and police arrived.

- They said we would move on us.

" Shocked "

The friends parted . One of them went crying to the stadium .

- We met a little later where , outside of Olympia. My friend was totally shocked. I remember his dad called and asked if we were okay.

The witness tells Aftonbladet that he was upset and had difficulty sleeping at night .

- I never went to the stadium yesterday when we got home.

 

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[Linus]

#DetRäckerNu

[nancyk58]

It is terrible. A 43-year old man (father of several children) wanting to watch a local football game and instead ending up being murdered in an unprovoked attack (3 people came running, and one of them hit the backhead of the victim with a glass bottle). This morning I heard that last night shortly before midnight a 28-year-old man gave himself up to the police. After short time of questioning he was arrested.

 

The police knew the suspected murderer in connection with minor crimes.

 

Source: Swedish SVT Text

[Linus]

"28-year-old admits to fighting" (google tanslated)

Man arrested for deadly assault - is suspected of manslaughter of the father of four

 

HELSINGBORG . A 28 - year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of the 43 -year-old father of four children .

He came in voluntarily to the police in Helsingborg shortly before midnight and arrested after questioning.

- He acknowledges the information that he has been at the scene and he's been in some kind of trouble here , says Tommy Sverngard , chief of police in Helsingborg, to SVT.

 

The man went himself in to police in Helsingborg and surrendered at 23:34 on Monday evening . He was taken straight to an initial hearing and was arrested an hour later by prosecutors.

The man is suspected on probable cause , the stronger degree of suspicion , for the manslaughter of the 43 -year-old father of four children Sunday.

- He has come in to the station itself , says Kenneth Andersson.

Has he confessed ?

- Hearing Affidavit and his approach to the crimes from commenting on the said Kenneth Andersson shortly after at 01:30 .

" Have been interesting "

Tommy Sverngard , police area manager , says , however, to SVT that 28 -year-old made ​​some concessions .

- He acknowledges the information that he has been at the scene and he's been in some kind of trouble here , he says.

28 -year-old had been under police investigation appeared in the media before he surrendered himself .

- He has been interesting in the investigation, there has been a lot of investigation.

The man lives in Helsingborg region and has previously not been convicted of felonies . He has not yet received a public defender .

On Tuesday , a further hearing be held with the man .

- There will be lots of investigative techniques. More people should be heard and the technical investigation brought puts says Andersson.

At present, no additional suspects , according to police.

Police have clear picture of the process

Already at a news conference earlier Monday told reconnaissance leader Caroline Äspinge that the police have a pretty clear picture of what happened when the 43 -year-old father of four children killed at the core of Sunday.

- He was there in company with his brother when they came in conversation with the perpetrator and some buddies were with him . I would not call it a fight , she says.

According to several witnesses, was 43 -year-old hit in the back of the head with a glass bottle. Police would not confirm which weapon used.

- Suddenly, the man exposed to an excessive force to the head. He falls and hits his head on the street, says Caroline Äspinge .

A witness stated yesterday for Aftonbladet that there were three people who attacked 43 -year-old and that they should have continued to kick and beat as he lay down . It toned down now by the police :

- There is a lone perpetrator who carried out the violence against the man's head , although there were several people who were in the gang.

Police have asked for movies

Where the offender and his friends went after the deadly assault is unclear but one of the police's theories is that they made ​​it to the Olympic Stadium for the match between Helsingborg and Djurgården.

- Police have requested all films from our own cameras inside the stadium , said the club's Communications Frederik Ericsson.

- We have 12-15 cameras there. Some films have already been given to the police and the other film material , the Tuesday.

At the police press conference also revealed that a man other than the now arrested 28 -year-old has been reasonably suspected of slaying .

He was released , however, after questioning on Sunday evening and is now transcribed from the case.

- We just had a signalement going on and there I considered to be too weak, prosecutors said Kerstin Eriksson.

Police reconnaissance leader Caroline Äspinge told the press conference during the day that police received witness statements that pointed out a culprit :

- Several people have seen the offender and we have received descriptions of him and even tips on different names.

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[rafaelchampion]

I will go a bit off-topic here but please, read, it's an outflow:

Here in South America we have a soccer championship called "Libertadores cup" in which the teams that had the best results in each country's championship take part (like Champion's League). There's a Brazilian team called Corinthians (YES, that one Coldplay visited when they came to Brazil, that at the time had Ronaldo as one of the players) that is known for receiving money from our government and from public institutions(like banks) and have alliances with bandits and criminal factions.

In a game against a a Bolivian team, in Oruro, Bolivia, one of the Corinthians' fans shot a flare for marine use as if it was a simple firework, hitting a 14-year-old Bolivian boy(who was watching the match with his father) IN THE EYE, causing his immediate death (you can imagine what happened to his head).

 

See more: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/thomson-reuters/130221/soccer-bolivian-boy-killed-flare-at-match-against-corinthians

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Several fans were arrested in Bolivia, whose justice wanted the judgement to happen in their territory(in which Brazilian weak laws don't apply).

Brazilian government did EVERYTHING in their hands until they departed the case's prosecutor in Bolivia (they probably threatened her), and were able to bring the guys back to Brazil, were laws just don't work. They were received as heroes.

Brazilian government muffled the case, everyone is free going on with their lives, the boy died, their family received a little amount of money (like if it could repair the damage).

 

Now this year we will have a world cup that costed Billions more than planned to be made. Institutions like Anonymous are already planning web shutdown and they said their plan is so well architected there's nothing Brazilian poor T.I. managers can do. Protests will be done, people on the streets, against this world cup in which so much money was spent while we don't have hospitals and schools. Pelé, yes, that big soccer player from 70s~80s, said: "Just sit down and enjoy". Ronaldo, when told that Brazilians wanted hospitals, not stadiums, said: "A world cup is not made with hospitals".

 

So please, if you're planning to come here to the world cup, or you know someone who will, warn them while it's time: it will NOT be a healthy world cup because our country is not healthy enough to handle one, we need to take care of our people before trying to take care of others.

[dontgo]

It is terrible. A 43-year old man (father of several children) wanting to watch a local football game and instead ending up being murdered in an unprovoked attack (3 people came running, and one of them hit the backhead of the victim with .a glass bottle). This morning I heard that last night shortly before midnight a 28-year-old man gave himself up to the police. After short time of questioning he was arrested.

 

The police knew the suspected murderer in connection with minor crimes.

 

 

 

Source: Swedish SVT Text

This is happening more frequently and is shocking, poor innocent people killed, and they wonder why the criminals get harrassed, because if they can go unnoticed they would never confess and they still walk freely fooling people, im glad they got caught.

Another sad story.

[The Lonely Martian]

Sport these days. :/

[westergs3]

Relatives: He did not want to get into trouble (google translated)

 

Loads of pictures in the article - Click here

 

The deceased 43 -year-old and his brother wanted to avoid trouble - because they went behind the large group of supporters.

Because of the crowd outside the stadium , it was there, and not at the stairs , as the police was when the fatal beating occurred .

- He left behind all the others to not get in trouble, says a relative of the man .

 

The 43 -year-old dead four children father loved football. The man was part of an old group of friends that nourished a common passion for the sport.

According to her , there was a reason that the man and his brother came after the large group of supporters.

- He left behind all the others to not get in trouble up ahead , she says.

- He was not like that.

"Fell hard and hit his head on the street "

Just a button minutes after the man been beaten up in Helsingborg yesterday arrived two other Djurgården supporters to the site.

- He lay very still on the ground and his brother lying beside him and screamed for help. We ran back and tried to calm him down , he shouted to his brother with a bottle in the head, one of them says .

Another witness Aftonbladet talked to says that she saw the shattered glass on the ground.

Scout leader Caroline Äspinge do not want to confirm that a bottle used as a weapon but her description attesting witnesses' experiences.

- A person handed violence against the victim's head , he fell hard and hit his head on the street , she said earlier in the day to Aftonbladet.

In place when the ambulance arrived

The two witnesses , declare to Aftonbladet that 43 -year-old was completely unresponsive .

- He had his eyes open but he did not blink . There was blood and a lot of glass fragments on the site.

Shortly afterwards arrived the first ambulance.

- I was surprised because when we arrived, before the ambulance got there, I understood that it was almost not any people at all on the site.

The witness says that it " felt like an eternity " before paramedics and police arrived.

- They said we would move on us.

" Shocked "

The friends parted . One of them went crying to the stadium .

- We met a little later where , outside of Olympia. My friend was totally shocked. I remember his dad called and asked if we were okay.

The witness tells Aftonbladet that he was upset and had difficulty sleeping at night .

- I never went to the stadium yesterday when we got home.

 

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Holy hell. It must have been a brutal fan fight to be able to kill a man. Didn't know some small fight could end up like this. I'm very sorry for the family.