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A previous American ambassador to Sweden, Mark Brzezinski, has written to the King, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström, and Sweden’s ambassador to the United States Karin Olofsdotter regarding the detention of hiphop star ASAP Rocky (dn.se). Brzezinski believes Sweden’s treatment of Rocky reflects extremely negatively on Sweden, particularly when the motivation behind the incident appears to be race-related. (Videos of the incident are all over the net.)
The incident took place near Hötorget in Stockholm on the 30th of June, DN.se reports. Two days later Rocky ASAP voluntarily came in to the police to answer questions. On June 3rd, a detention order was sent in by the prosecutor’s office and on the 5th he was detained on suspicion of assault (sannolika skäl misstänkta för misshandel av normalgraden). Two others are also detained, and all three proclaim their innocence. They can be detained until July 19th, or even longer if the court so decides.
By the way, apparently only the Royal family got back to Brzezinski – but what they said, he’s not saying.