It annoys me that they’ve gone with “pro Palestinian demonstrators” as opposed to, for instance, people who have an issue with a state committing genocide.
Translation:
The incident occurred on Monday evening after Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M), Minister of Civil Defense, attended a meeting with the moderate party group.
The minister has shared a clip of a group of people following him in the Old Town, and writes:
“When I stepped out at Mynttorget and was about to walk home, it looked like this. A group of people with antisocial dominant behavior started following me, which resulted in me simply not being able to get home, for the simple reason that my address here in Stockholm is not public,” Bohlin writes in the post.
The minister instead returned to the Riksdag building.
Investigating crime
The clip shows the seemingly lonely minister and people shouting at him that he should be ashamed and that he has blood on his hands.
The police are now investigating the crime.
- Late last night, the police took note of the minister’s post on social media, that he had been followed. And due to the information that emerged in the post, the police have opened a criminal investigation with the classification of harassment, says press spokesperson Rebecca Landberg.
The clip shows how people pursue the seemingly lonely minister and shout after him that he should be ashamed and that he has blood on his hands. Photo: SVT “What is the next limit?”
In Morgonstudion, Bohlin commented on the incident further:
- You don’t stand at a distance of a few decimeters and scream everything you can at people you don’t know, that’s not normal behavior. And if you’ve crossed that line, it’s clear that you ask yourself: What is the next limit that these people in a group will cross?
He did not want to talk about the criticism of the government.
- Are we going to end up in the situation where we are standing and discussing the issue as a consequence of a bunch of people who are behaving like idiots trying to follow me home - my answer to that question is no.
Kristersson: “Rabble-rousing”
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson writes to SVT:
“I have a message tonight to the Palestine activists in Stockholm: Sweden is a democracy and you are welcome to express your opinion on the Middle East. But immediately stop threatening Swedish politicians. I now expect all parties and all party leaders to immediately distance themselves from the mob-like behavior that Carl Oskar Bohlin has been subjected to tonight.”
How were they ”threatening” him? To shout that he should be ashamed is not a threat, Mr. Kristersson.
And about the ”normal behavior”, I would say it’s okay to do something not ”normal” when expressing your discontent about complicity in a genocide. Maybe complicity in a genocide should be ”not normal” and he ”crossed a line”? And then dodge the question about the political issue.
But I guess the demonstrators should just use the approved method of influencing politicians and be born rich and well connected instead.
Are you for real? About eight hooded men following you through the streets at night is clearly threatening. Any person would be uncomfortable in that situation.
I didn’t see anything about 8 hooded men in this post, i don’t know if that is the original or other articles.
But from the thing I replied to, I feel like this was okay? The only reason he didn’t go home was that he didn’t want anyone to find out where he lives (fair enough).
But why dodge the question about the genocide? Maybe he should realize that when you support genocide, people will be very angry at you. Instead of complaining about them expressing their anger, just because for once it’s in person instead of emails you can ignore.
If you look at Bohlins recording, you can clearly see them following him. Actually, it looks to be more than eight people, wearing hoods and masks.
And I don’t fucking know, ask Bohlin yourself. But we don’t threaten people in Sweden, period.
Well, if that is that case, I change my view on this. As I said I was replying to a specific post, not the recording. Maybe the article was bad then, not portraying the situation well enough. What I read sounded super out of touch from the politicians‘ side (”how dare you express your anger in my face“).
I guess my error would I didn’t do enough research before replying.
Fair enough
Are you entirely sure that you wouldn’t have felt threatened in a situation like that? He was on his way home, possibly to his partner and children.
To me, this is clearly a threat to our democracy, where loud and aggressive people are trying to frighten politicians with other opinions than their own. And mind you, I have never told you my opinion on the situation in Gaza, only that this is NOT the right way to make a difference.
Of course, you would feel threatened!
I don’t know, but I think if he’s not ready to help stop the genocide in his position, he should be ready to hear what people think about that. In person. Not from the comfort of emails that you can just ignore. And of course the people are angry.
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What a bias article. Wow.
And why is that?
What mumblefish said.
Every part of it is from the state’s perspective. First from the minister involved, then from the police, and then the prime minister.
No part of the article includes anyone else involved, or even anyone not involved but from the pro-Palestine side.
The fear mongering of “what will they do next?! 😧” also never gets challenged.
Israel is committing violence upon Palestinians and this minister was shamed for his involvement, and he equates that with violence committed upon him. He’s a coward with a victim complex and unfortunately the state and media right behind him backing him up.
It’s a retelling of what happened, caught on video… gtfo
And you probably can’t even read the fucking article in the first place
If it were purely a retelling it wouldn’t have the perspectives of police and the prime minister who weren’t there…
A transcript is a retelling, this is not that.
And no, hence why I responded to the translation.
My inability to read Swedish has no bearing on my ability to discern bias in this instance. There’s no nuance that needs to be read between the lines from the primary source language.
Your getting angry doesnt change anything. Use your head, not your emotions.
Not really no…
This is so clearly inexcusable behavior by the protesters.
