Far-right Sweden Democrats official suspended after Anne Frank remarks

A Sweden Democrats official was suspended by the far-right occasion for making degrading feedback in regards to the Jewish Holocaust sufferer recognized for her diary, Anne Frank.

In an Instagram posting that has now been deleted, Rebecka Fallenkvist referred to as Frank “immoral”, amongst different issues, in keeping with Swedish media.

Frank, who wrote her diary whereas in hiding in Amsterdam earlier than she was captured, died at age 15 in Nazi Germany’s Bergen-Belsen loss of life camp in February 1945.

The posting by Fallenkvist, a 26-year-old head of tv programming for the Sweden Democrats, prompted robust reactions from Jewish teams and the Israeli ambassador to Sweden, Ziv Nevo Kulman.

“I strongly condemn this despicable insult, disrespectful of the reminiscence of Anne Frank,” he mentioned in a tweet. His posting included what gave the impression to be a screenshot of Fallenkvist’s Instagram submit.

The Sweden Democrats’ media director, Oskar Cavalli-Bjorkman, instructed the Swedish information company TT late Saturday that the occasion would take Fallenkvist’s “insensitive and inappropriate” feedback severely and launch an inside investigation on the matter.

Whereas it remained unclear what sort of level Fallenkvist wished to make together with her feedback on Frank’s diary, she later despatched a textual content message to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter saying she had been misinterpreted.

Sweden Democrats was based within the Eighties by individuals who had been energetic in right-wing extremist teams, together with neo-Nazis. 

The occasion emerged as Sweden’s second-largest occasion within the 11 September election beneath the management of Jimmie Akesson.

On Friday, three Swedish centre-right events agreed to kind a coalition authorities with the help of the Sweden Democrats that has moved towards mainstream politics however retains a tough line on immigration.