Mathias Wåg beaten in attack on Expo lecture

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Published 24 April 2024 at 19.52

Domestic. An “anti-fascist meeting” with the far-left Expo has been attacked by masked men who threw a smoke bomb and assaulted AFA founder Mathias Wåg. Several people are said to have been taken to hospital and participants are said to have been sprayed in the face with red paint.

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Flyer for the “anti-fascist meeting”.

The meeting was held on Wednesday evening at the Moment Theater in Gubbängen, and the police rushed to the premises at 6:30 p.m.

Just before the lecture with the far-left Expo was to start, “a group of masked Nazis entered the premises”, Expo writes on its website and continues:< /p>

“The Nazis attacked, both with physical violence against visitors, with defense spray and vandalized the premises before throwing some type of smoke grenade that filled the foyer with smoke”.

– There was a terrible haze. It was difficult to breathe, says Margareta Olofsson, board member of the Left Party in Enskede, to Aftonbladet.

She describes the attackers as five young people. They are said to have managed to leave the scene before the police arrived.

How Expo knows that it was “Nazis” who were behind the attack is not clear from the far-left newspaper's reporting.

Red color in the face
According to Expo, Mathias Wåg – as described as the founder of the left-wing terrorist group AFA and today is a writer in Aftonbladet – beaten.

– They were determined and went after me. I got a few punches but nothing that will give any but. I hope we complete the meeting, says Mathias Wåg to Expo.

A large police operation is underway in the area.

Expo states that several people had to be taken to hospital.

< p>Birgitta Lindor, producer at Moment Teatern, tells SVT that people were sprayed with red paint in the face.

The far-left foundation's head of education Klara Ljungberg was to give a speech during the event, which was organized by the Left Party in Farsta.

Kristersson: “Attack against our democracy”
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson comments on the attack for Aftonbladet:

“An attack on a democratic meeting is an attack on our entire democracy. It is appalling information that a meeting held by the Left Party has been stormed. I have heard from Nooshi Dadgostar and expressed my deepest support. This type of despicable act has no place in our free and open society.”

Even other party leaders condemn the attack.

“Right-wing extremists want to scare us to silence. They will never succeed,” writes S-leader Magdalena Andersson on X. “What happened in Gubbängen is an attack on Swedish democracy. That a political meeting is stormed by anti-democratic forces can never be accepted . This has no place in our society”, writes Ebba Busch (KD) on the same platform.