Published 27 January 2022 at 08.02
Domestic. Now the Armed Forces confirms that the authority considers itself entitled to discriminate on arbitrary political grounds – decisions that can then not be appealed.
– Extremes can not be accommodated within the framework of the Armed Forces' values, says Colonel Thomas Karlsson to Samnytt. >
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- Evelina, 26, tweeted critically about immigration – denied place in the Home Guard
On Monday, Fria Tider published a high-profile article about Evelina Hahne, 26, who was denied a place in an education at the Home Guard.
In a recorded conversation, Pierre Andersson, recruitment officer at the Swedish Armed Forces, admitted that Evelina Hahne's application had been suspended because the authority discovered that she had written immigration-critical posts 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, Pierre Andersson said in the conversation, and added that it was more specifically “equal value for all” that the 26-year-old was considered to have violated through his posts.
Evelina Hahne is involved in it Immigration Policy Party Alternatives for Sweden. She is married to William Hahne, former vice chairman of the Sweden Democrats' then youth union SDU.
Colonel Thomas Karlsson is head of the Central Military Region and is thus responsible for the decision to suspend Evelina's application. He tells Samnytt that the Armed Forces can say no to people who belong to “extreme” parties.
– If it is extreme parties, then I am talking about real extremes, because extremes can not be accommodated within the framework of the Armed Forces' values. Then I am not talking about parties in the Riksdag, but more extreme groups, he says.
Thomas Karlsson explains that he does not mean parties like the Feminist Initiative but parties “where you see that the values do not correspond to the Armed Forces' values. <./p>
However, this is decided in an arbitrary way.
– There is no sharp limit, but everything is about an assessment, says Karlsson to Samnytt.
The colonel states that Alternatives for Sweden may be too extreme for the values.
– The Armed Forces' values are comprehensive in terms of sexual orientation, ethnic groups, etc. Then there may be expressions in this party that do not meet the values criteria that we is based on, he tells Samnytt.