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Home | Friday 27th March 2009 | Issue 670

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SAABOTAGE

In the early morning of March 22th three Swedish peace activists were arrested after breaking into Saab Aerospace Systems’ weapons factory in Linköping with the intention of decommissioning Jas 39 Gripen fighter jets - war planes which are exported to India, Thailand and South Africa.

The activists, who are all part of the anti-militaristic network Ofog, were remanded in custody and are to be charged with ‘attempted sabotage’. This is the fifth decommissioning action in Sweden since June 2008 (See SchNEWS 652).

* For more visit www.ofog.org/avrusta

Keywords: anti-militarism, anti-war, arms industry, direct action, saab, sweden


 

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