This is totally unacceptable behaviour, Norwegian local police said.

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A quarter past five this afternoon (local time), the police station in Troms was informed that some thugs had thrown cabbage and tomatoes on some participants during a pride celebrations in Harstad in Northern part of Norway.

There should have been a group of six boys aged 13 to 16 who stood behind this.

«Why they do this we can only speculate at the moment, but this is an unacceptable behaviour», says operations manager at Troms police district, Karl Erik Thomassen, to Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.

When the police arrived to the scene, the thugs was gone – the police kept looking for them in the area for an hour – but these thugs was not to be found. Police encouraging all victims to contact them. Currently, the police has only just received a tip from witnesses.

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