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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera Staff

Indonesia stadium crush trial hit by claims of intimidation

The trial is taking place amid heavy security in Surabaya [File: Juni Kriswanto/AFP]

Medan, Indonesia – Members of Indonesia’s Mobile Brigade Corps known as Brimob – a special operations and paramilitary branch of the National Police – have tried to disrupt the trial of five people, including three police officers, over last year’s stadium crush that left 135 people dead.

Video shared on social media showed the officers, dressed in their distinctive navy-blue berets, jeering and heckling as prosecutors arrived on February 14 at the ongoing trial into the crush at the Kanjuruhan Stadium in the city of Malang.

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