Swiss police violently disperse anti-Iran protest at embassy
Source: AP
BERLIN (AP) — Swiss police used rubber bullets to disperse protesters in front of the Iranian Embassy in Bern after two men climbed over the embassy’s fence and pulled down the Iranian flag from a flagpole in the yard.
Police said late Saturday that nobody was injured and that the “large crowd” of protesters was dispersed after the use of rubber bullets. The two protesters who entered the embassy’s grounds were detained, according to police in the Swiss capital.
Police said they used rubber bullets after several other protesters at the unauthorized demonstration tried following the two men who had first entered the embassy’s yard and also attempted to access the premises.
It wasn’t immediately clear if more protesters were detained.
A protester takes down the Iranian flag on the ground of the Iranian embassy during the global protest against the Iranian regime in front of the Iranian embassy in Bern, Switzerland, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. They protest against the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died while in police custody in Iran. Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran's morality police for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP)
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