Assignment: Investigate!

ASSIGNMENT: INVESTIGATE! THE EU SUMMIT RIOTS In June 2001, demonstrations and riots took place in Göteborg, Sweden, as top leaders of the Council of the European Union met with the President of the United States. For the first time in the history of the EU, a demonstrator was shot in the street by the police. He survived and had criminal charges filed against him by the public prosecutor - as did numerous other young people, orderly demonstrators and disorderly hooligans alike. Janne Josefsson and Hannes Råstam of ASSIGNMENT: INVESTIGATE!, Sweden's most-popular weekly current-affairs programme brought a number of widely noted reports. They investigated the evolution of events during the riots. This programme deals with the video-taped evidence used in the trial of the shot man. The prosecutor, offering videotaped sequences in support of his charges, alleges that the policeman who shot the defendant did so in self-defence. At the same time, he emphasises the importance of not using edited material in the trial. In this programme, Josefsson and Råstam demolish the prosecutor’s evidence and show that his videotape material had, indeed, been edited. Not only had that material been misleadingly cut, it had even had spurious sound added!