I CAN HAZ MOAR ‘BOUT TEH REID
Bo Birgersson, Forskningsavdelningen, Hackerkultur, Pigs in space, Police, Support | (50)
What happened?
At 20.45 on Saturday the 28th of November the police raided the social centre Utkanten in Malmö, where the hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen is housed. Twenty officers in full riot gear and ski masks broke into the space through the entrance and a backdoor, using crowbars. Shortly thereafter twenty to thirty more showed up, mostly dressed as civilians and some of them IT technicians from Länskriminalen (county police), who are suspected to be interested in the hackerspace. They stayed in the building for about six hours.
The official reason for the raid was to do a "pub check" because of the suspicion ...