On Wednesday, a 20-year-old man was convicted of violence against an official in connection with the Ronneby riot in 2020. In interrogation, which became public in connection with the verdict, the police involved now tell about what happened in the square that August night.
- We hear from colleagues on site that something is not right and all resources are thrown in the cars.
There are conversations about broken shop windows, someone must have got a stone in the head.
We drive into Kungsgatan and pretty soon we get the first stones on us.
There are only rocks around us and everyone huddles behind the bus.
We try to get the shields over us and that's how I get the first stone on me, from below, and I realize how exposed the dog is, he is standing there with us, says a dog-carrying policeman in the preliminary investigation.
Shortly afterwards, the stones stop flying and the police can make an advance.
- Outside Lindex there is a guy.
Two colleagues drag him behind the cars, guards take over and make sure he gets care.
It's strained, devilishly strained.
I feel that we are in a huge disadvantage, the dog handler continues.
One has been convicted
Several police patrols are now cooperating to repel the angry crowd to the east, along Karlskronagatan.
Most people obey the order but one person refuses to obey.
- I raise my voice and press the man with the shield in his chest and order him again to back away.
He goes straight to counterattack and uses both his arms and his body weight and strikes with force against the shield that goes up in the face and the upper edge hits the nose.
The man disappears into the crowd and a few minutes later I feel that it is getting damp around the nostrils and I realize that I have started to bleed, the injured police officer says in the preliminary investigation.
The man who pushes the police is the same man who has now been convicted of violence against an official - the first sentence in the wake of the Ronneby riot.