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Sweden Ambulance Boss: Paramedics Banned From ‘No Go Zones’, Need Military Equipment

1-3-2017 < Red Ice Creations 53 140 words
 
Sweden Ambulance Boss: Paramedics Banned From ‘No Go Zones’, Need Military Equipment The leader of a Swedish Ambulance Driver’s Union has spoken out on the abuse his members experience while attending to emergency call-outs in so-called “No Go Zones” in migrant-populated areas, and has called for his members to have access to “military” defensive equipment to enable them to do their jobs. Union boss Gordon Grattidge spoke to well respected Swedish journalist Paulina Neuding in an interview for think tank Det Goda Samhället (The Good Society) and discussed ambulances being forced to retreat from no gone zones on a regular basis after coming under attack from “large groups of violent people”. Saying his members needed police protection, as well as body armour and helmets, Mr. Grattidge described how ambulances frequently came under attack while on the job, remarking: “It’s when…
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