Evelina, 26, tweeted critically about immigration – being denied a place in the Home Guard

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Published January 25, 2022 at 3:28 pm

Domestic. When Evelina Hahne, 26, applied to the Home Guard, she was first welcomed by the Armed Forces, but suddenly the authority suspended her application without her knowing why. In a secret recording, an official at the authority now admits that she was denied a place because of her political views.
& nbsp; – On Twitter, you have written things that I did not consider to be compatible with the Armed Forces' values. Everyone's equal value, says Pierre Andersson, recruitment officer at the Swedish Armed Forces, on the tape.

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Evelina Hahne trains with her infant in a pram before education.

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Administrator Pierre Andersson on Facebook.

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Lieutenant Colonel Johan Midenby is head of the Life Guards Group.

Evelina Hahne, 26, is a new mother, civil engineer and lives in Stockholm.

Last year she got an account on Twitter – where she has quickly gained over 7,000 followers. She tweets a lot about her family life but also about politics. Several of Evelina's most popular posts contain criticism of Swedish immigration policy.

In October last year, Evelina Hahne submitted an application to attend the Home Guard's basic soldier training for volunteers (GU-F) – a two-week training. She got to talk to the Armed Forces' recruitment officer Pierre Andersson.

– I talked to him for several hours, on several occasions. I started training in October, marched and drove on, says Evelina Hahne to Fria Tider.

The idea was that she would attend the training in March, and last January was the last day for registration. Before that, however, Evelina needed to undergo a security check.

– I was informed in December that I would be booked for a security check. But then nothing happened for the whole of December, so two or three weeks ago I was told that they would speed up the process. Last week on Thursday, I received an email from Pierre Andersson, the administrator, stating that they had canceled my application and that the decision could not be appealed, she says.

On Friday, Evelina Hahne called Pierre Andersson to get an explanation for the decision. But the administrator referred to the fact that the decision had been made “higher up” – more specifically by Lieutenant Colonel Johan Midenby.

Evelina then called Johan Midenby, and managed in the conversation to get him to admit that he knew that Evelina is married to William Hahne, former deputy chairman of the Sweden Democrats' then youth union SDU and later involved in the party Alternative for Sweden. Evelina is also involved in AFS, but has no formal position in the party.

However, Midenby stated in the conversation that the decision had not been made due to political views.

– No, it does not. I do not fully know what your political commitment is: We have not made a deeper search for your political position, he said.

Evelina Hahne then resorted to a cheeky method. She called Pierre Andersson again and now claimed that Lieutenant Colonel Midenby had said that Andersson had advised him not to proceed with her application. Andersson then finally admitted that the decision was based on her Twitter post.

– We checked some things that you wrote on Twitter. There were things there that you wrote that I did not consider to be compatible with the values ​​of the Armed Forces. Then I made the decision to cancel, says Pierre Andersson in the conversation, which was recorded.

However, he refuses to answer what Evelina Hahne has written that is contrary to the so-called values.

– Now we have made this decision and unfortunately it is not possible to appeal.

Evelina Hahne asks to know what in the values ​​she is considered to have violated.

– It is … the equal value of all people, Pierre Andersson answers.

After the conversation, Evelina Hahne discovered that Pierre Andersson likes groups such as “Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag – No thanks” on Facebook and also spreads pride flags on Linkedin.

When Fria Tider reaches Pierre Andersson, he is not particularly talkative.

– No comments. You can talk to the head of the Lifeguard Group, he says and hangs up.

“Difference between opinions and values”
When Fria Tider calls the chief, Lieutenant Colonel Johan Midenby, he claims that he is the one who made the decision to suspend Evelina Hahne's recruitment and not Pierre Andersson. He also claims that the Armed Forces' values ​​give him the right to sort out applicants because of their values.

– There is a difference between political opinions and values, Midenby explains for Fria Tider.

< Pierre also says that this decision can not be appealed. What is it about your decisions that makes them impossible to appeal?

– It is not such a type of decision that can normally be appealed.

You are an official of an authority and have made an unfavorable decision against an individual that she should be denied access to a education because of what she has written on Twitter. Is it not possible to appeal?

– It is possible that we may sit down and look at this decision again. There are rules but there are also exceptions.

And this with the fact that the reasons for the decision are secret then? You obviously map the political opinions of individuals and then, according to the GDPR, you should be able to get a copy of the opinions you have in your register. So why does Pierre refuse to tell you what opinions she has expressed on Twitter that have led you to suspend recruitment?

– If you apply for a job and are denied it, we do not usually develop why, but we thank you for your interest and we encourage the person to apply elsewhere. Then we have not been able to verify that she is the caller, and we do not want to risk disclosing her personal information to anyone else.

Evelina Hahne herself is not impressed by the explanations she has received from those responsible.

– I want the Home Guard to back away from its anti-democratic decision so that I can complete the training and join the Home Guard, she says.

In 2013, Fria Tider reported that the Armed Forces had banned immigration criticism of leisure time for their employees.

“For example, it is not possible to sign in one's job that diversity in a workplace is an asset and something one wants to promote and work for, in order to then get involved in immigration in Credibility would suffer, not only for the employee himself but for the entire Armed Forces “, the Armed Forces wrote on its website.

The day after Fria Tider noticed the wording, however, it had been deleted from the Armed Forces' website. When Fria Tider then called the Swedish Armed Forces, they explained that the ban on immigration criticism was an accident at work.