Published 9 February 2024 at 12.02
Domestic. A number of left-wing activists announce that they will buy Gucci caps (with a price tag of SEK 4,000) in a protest against the government's visitation zones.
Share the article
TwittraShare
Despite opposition from several referral bodies, the Tidö government is proceeding with the proposal for visitation zones.
This means that from March 28, the police will be allowed to body search people without criminal suspicion in temporary zones.
– Not everyone who wears Gucci copy caps is a gang criminal, but many gang criminals wear Gucci copy caps, said Martin Melin (L) during a press conference on Thursday.
This type of caps, like, for example, jackets from Haglöfs, are common among gang criminal immigrants. But the outcome makes the left – who accuse the visitation zones of being an expression of racial profiling – furious.
On social media, a number of left-wing activists, both known and unknown, declare that they now intend to buy their own Gucci caps in protest against the government .
The price tag for such a cap is SEK 4,000.
I've always thought Gucci caps are incredibly ugly, but now I feel the need to get one and go to the nearest visitation zone to prove the structural discrimination the law will inevitably entail.
— Peter Hellman (@hrhellman) February 8, 2024
Can everyone wear Gucci caps in opposition to the government?
— CUF Gothenburg (@CUFGBG) February 8, 2024
gets fake gucci caps as an act of resistance
— hana (@hanakalpak) February 8, 2024
— Pavlos Cavelier Bizas (@pavloscavelier) February 8, 2024
Me, middle class woman, with white skin suit & Haglöfs jacket & matching hat & scarf will never be searched if I visit a search zone. A privilege. Mustafa, 21 years old with brown skin, Haglöfs jacket & expensive sneakers are not so lucky. In March, racial profiling begins again.
— jälthugg (@mjalthugg) February 8, 2024
Where can you get a cheap Gucci cap? They're ugly, but if they're going to be the new, voluntary Mark of Cain for this shitty government, I absolutely want one. https://t.co/ERFGT5ZXhP
— Nigel Fromage, political pundit (@snel_k0t) February 8, 2024
Everyone should wear Gucci caps to stress and make the search job of police officers more difficult
— Ali O))) Alonzo (@babomagasin2) February 8, 2024
The campaign is mocked by other users.
So people are still doing the teenage rebellion against dad, even though they are approaching 40. I thought in my stupidity that even the most hopeless bimbo found the token in 2024, but no https://t.co /gwtwUwhQ9D
— Fredric Morenius (@FredricMorenius) February 8, 2024
“For us it was a matter of course to buy a Gucci cap. It is an act of resistance.” pic.twitter.com/hHPf2Z8xve
— Herr Husis (@HerrHusis) February 8, 2024