Now the strong demonstration in in Stockholm for Obama

Wednesday, 04 September 2013
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm for a rally that was expected to stretch to 18 o’clock Swedish time to protest in various forms in front of the US president who is currently on his visit to Sweden.

Amidst the talk of possible military strike on Syria for using weapons of mass destruction on its people, the drone warfare and the snooping or better know known as data  interception by the USA government, many Swedes where out in force to show their USA visitor how much they are annoyed  with the United States.

While the president went on to dinner,the demonstrations started in earnest in Stockholm.

There were also a small group that was also to support the president calling for him to strike Syria very hard such that it knock’s  Bashar al-Assad off power. This group however, was obscured by the large vocal ones who saw everything wrong with the USA and nothing they could agree to associate themselves with the US president.

Music Performances succeeded by speech from the steps of the Civic Hall or Medborgarhuset was up to provide some animation. The Left party official Göran Greider is one of those who gathered on site to protest against the United States’ use of drones.”Hopes for Obama are still there, but the war on terror is uncomfortable,” he says.

At one end of the Medborgarplatsen supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were chanting slogans. They met with opponents chanting back. Between them are about a dozen police officers who keep the groups apart.

Just after 18.00 hr, they began the march from Medborgarplatsen with a view to Mynttorget at Parliament House. According to a police officers on site, it has so far been a very quiet affair, despite tensions between supporters and opponents of President al-Assad.

Around 30 police officers were on the Medborgarplatsen engaged in the task, though near U.S. Embassy continued the demonstrations.

Barack Obama visited the Stockholm synagogue where relatives of Raoul Wallenberg, the people he saved from the Holocaust, were exhibited as well as journalists and representatives of the Jewish community were waiting.
by Scancomark.com Team