In recent weeks, the problem of offensive wedges, ie zeroing in sports contexts, has received a great deal of attention in ice hockey.

The focus has mainly been on events further back in time.

But most recently in August, a situation arose that testifies that the issue is just as relevant today.

In this case, the sport is basketball and the place is the national sports high school in Mark (RIG Mark), 40 km outside Borås.

Spread in a chat

A film that SVT Sport has seen shows how several older boys in the student housing enter a newly moved first-year student's room, stand in a ring and start flirting with the first-year student who is lying on the floor repeatedly with wet towels.

When he tries to hide under the bed, the bed is lifted away so that the towel can continue - while the older boys laugh out loud.

The film was later spread in a chat among basketball students, set to music with the dramatic 90's hit "Ameno".

- It's awful to see.

It is not something you want to see at your school, says responsible principal Johan Westerberg to SVT Sport.

"We are not with them all the time"

In 2015, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate criticized RIG Mark after testifying that students had been subjected to zeroing of an abusive nature.

In interviews, both staff and students testified about egg-laying of students, hierarchies based on age and a tradition that boys in one would snag their hair before school photography.

Principal Johan Westerberg admits that there are still snatches every year among male basketball students in one.

- And every year we talk to the students that it can be perceived as a violation, both before and after the photo shoot.

But we are not with them all the time, around the clock.

Through housing values, he has also received incident reports of students hiding keys from other students and food stolen from refrigerators.

SVT Sport has also received information about student rooms that have been vandalized and has seen pictures in the chat from last autumn that show reddened thighs - after male students beat each other there with open palms.

A culture that sits in the walls?

Hear principal Johan Westerberg respond to the criticism:

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The principal: "Not my image that a zeroing culture has flourished in all years"

Although the incident that was filmed took place in mid-August, it took until the end of September before the school became aware of what had happened.

A police report was then made about abuse and the school's principal, in that case Mark's municipality, has through its children and education administration started an investigation that is still ongoing.

- What happened?

Is there a culture of silence?

A pattern?

What can we do better?

There are certainly things.

That is why I welcome this investigation, says Johan Westerberg.

SVT Sport has previously in a longer documentary described how the national sports high school for water skiing and wakeboarding in Fagersta closed after alarms about misconduct.

Watch the documentary "In deep water" here.