After the Easter weekend riots around Sweden, the debate has intensified.
"Why is it not handled sharply?", The Christian Democrats' party leader Ebba Busch asked in a well-publicized statement in Ekot's Saturday interview.
But this is not the first time the question has been raised.
- That discussion has come up several times.
If you are to have the right to shoot at a crowd or to deploy the military, says Mats Berglund.
"Unworthy of a freedom-loving people"
In connection with the riots in the 1810s, when Count Axel von Fersen was lynched, however, there was no talk of firing sharply at the insurgents, but at much more peaceful efforts.
- It was suggested that you wave flags, blow trumpets and hit drums 10 to 20 minutes before the military was deployed.
One in the peasantry thought it was quite unworthy though and thought we are a freedom-loving people, we should not be ruled by drums and trumpets.
The proposal for warning musical instruments has not been taken up since then, unlike water cannons which have long been a hot proposal.
- There was someone from the bourgeoisie who had seen that water cannons were used in the riots in Paris and suggested that something similar could be used in Stockholm.
But there was never any major discussion about it, says Mats Berglund.
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