A Chinese family comprising mother, father and son arrived at their hotel in Stockholm 1 day early on 2 September, 2018.
2018年9月2日，一个由母子组成的中国家庭提前一天抵达斯德哥尔摩下榻的酒店。
As a result, hotel staff allowed the family to wait in the lobby, however, after verbal threats were made, staff called the police and the family were forcibly removed.
结果，酒店工作人员允许一家人在大堂等候，但在受到口头威胁后，工作人员报了警，一家人被强行带走。
During the incident, the family threw themselves to the ground crying and wailing, trying to deface the police and seek assistance from passing pedestrians.
事发过程中，一家人扑倒在地痛哭流涕，试图辱骂警察并向路过的行人寻求帮助。
At one point in the short video posted online, police are seen carrying a family member away from the hotel, while the son yells, “This is killing… This is killing”.
在网上发布的短视频中，有一次警察将一名家庭成员抬离酒店，而他的儿子则大喊：“这是杀人……这是杀人”。
According to The Guardian, “Chinese Tourists Mistreated By Swedish Police” has been searched over 130m times and has a related 85,000 posts on China’s main microblogging site Weibo.
据《卫报》报道，中国主要微博网站微博上，“中国游客遭瑞典警察虐待”搜索量已超过1.3亿次，相关帖子达8.5万条。
It has been assumed the incident would not have usually garnered such a media reaction had the Beijing government not demanded an apology from Sweden for “brutally abusing” Chinese citizens.
人们认为，如果北京政府没有要求瑞典就“残酷虐待”中国公民道歉，这一事件通常不会引起如此大的媒体反应。
The incident has sparked huge discussion online, with some Weibo commentators talking of embarrassment while others are in favour of the apology.
该事件在网上引发热议，一些微博评论者表示尴尬，而另一些人则赞成道歉。
“We only know that we have done everything we could do for this guest, but at the same time we cannot accept that our staff are exposed to threats and that other guests will suffer from a threatening situation”, the hotel manager told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
酒店经理告诉瑞典报纸《Aftonbladet》：“我们只知道我们已经为这位客人做了一切我们能做的，但同时我们不能接受我们的员工受到威胁，其他客人也会受到威胁。”
