China Complains To Sweden As Tourists 'brutally' Ejected From Hotel

China has lodged a diplomatic complaint accusing Swedish police of treating Chinese tourists "brutally" after a family was roughly ejected from a Stockholm hotel, the foreign ministry said Monday.

Beijing, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Sep, 2018 ) :China has lodged a diplomatic complaint accusing Swedish police of treating Chinese tourists "brutally" after a family was roughly ejected from a Stockholm hotel, the foreign ministry said Monday.

The spat began earlier this month when the family of three -- a man and his elderly parents -- tried to sleep in a Stockholm hotel lobby after arriving early for their reservation, but the hotel's employees refused to allow them.

Widely-shared video footage shows a Chinese man being carried out of a building by two police officers as someone in the background yells in protest. An older Chinese woman is seen sat on the ground outside next to her luggage.

The family claim police left them in the cold at a cemetery several kilometres (miles) away from the hotel.

The incident escalated over the weekend, with both foreign ministries wading in.

The Chinese embassy in Sweden and foreign ministry "lodged representation with the Swedish side, urging the Swedish side to investigate this case, to respond promptly to the reasonable request of the Chinese tourists," foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters at a regular press briefing on Monday.

His Swedish counterpart Patric Nilsson said Stockholm and Beijing are conducting a dialogue on "various aspects of our relationship".

Swedish authorities on Monday said there was no police wrongdoing, calling it an "ordinary police procedure".