New bengal burnings at Gamla Ullevi - no arrests

A few thousand supporters of IFK Gothenburg marched on Sunday from Götaplatsen to Gamla Ullevi as a protest against the police's various interventions in recent times.

In particular, the protest stemmed from the tumult last Sunday when police entered IFK's grandstand and arrested around fifteen people during the match against Häcken after some spectators masked themselves and lit around 80 flares.

This took place at the Nordic Wellness Arena in Hisingen, where it is significantly more crowded for both the audience and the police to move around compared to På Gamla Ullevi.

Various supporter groups objected to the fact that the police last Sunday used so-called pepper spray in the crowd when they climbed into the crowd to take people away.

Before Sunday's match, Blåvittklacken had written in a post on X "We will continue to decide on our own stands".

During the march from Götaplatsen, tactful messages such as "All of Gothenburg hates the police" and "Snutjävlar - football killers!" were shouted. A large flag was carried with a crossed police badge and the numbers 1312. They are usually used as an anti-police signal.

At the same time, there is criticism from supporter groups against the fact that during Saturday's match between Örgryte and Västerås, a banner was held up in Örgryte's stands. On the banner were the names of a convicted police killer and a well-known policeman who often leads the police during matches in Gothenburg.

The banner was taken down relatively quickly and the incident has been reported to the police as an insult to an official.

Before the start of the match on Sunday, IFK Gothenburg's stands, the so-called Kommandobryggan, were completely empty.

The stand group's social media account had announced that they had agreed with Malmö FF's heel section to be completely silent during the first 20 minutes of the match. Now they were not only silent, but completely absent.

However, the mentioned flag with a crossed police emblem hung at the front of the railing facing the field. A banner that covered the entire width of the stand was waiting to be rolled out with the text "Police-free zone - for a safe stand".

The Malmö FF heel showed their support for the "Kommandobryggan" with a banner with the same text.

When the match speaker a few minutes before the crowd rushed up to the "Command Bridge" reminded that "pyrotechnic pieces are not allowed" in the arena, many boos were heard.

Even though the organizer, in this case IFK Göteborg, is responsible for searching the audience, it is still common for spectators to mask themselves and light smuggled flares.

At the same moment that the "Commandobryggan" had been filled, a handful of flares were lit on the Malmö FF side and then about fifty in sync on IFK's northern stand.

The smoke spread over the stands but the match was not interrupted. The police had expected that a fire would take place and did not intervene either by going out into the stands.

A few minutes later, the heels on each side of the pitch began to chant "Snutjävlar - football killers" while flags with the text "Snut-free zone" and the numbers "1312" were waved on the "Command Bridge".

There they also sang a variation of Thomas Stenström's song "Slå mig hart i sägen". Now it was heard instead "Hit them hard in the face so they feel they are alive".

A bit into the second half, no one had been arrested in connection with the match.

- No situation has arisen so far that has posed any danger to the public. There will be reports for the burning of pyrotechnics by people who were masked. We are trying to find those who did it at a later stage, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson.