Gang leader guest at Jimmie Åkesson's wedding

Published 5 October 2024 at 12.35

Domestic. The news that a leader of a criminal gang was a guest at Jimmie Åkesson's media­high­marked­same wedding this week continues to spark debate. Now the Social Democrats want to call Säpo to the justice committee to answer how security can be guaranteed for leading politicians who party with criminals.

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Robert Hedarv is president of it criminal MC gang Comanches, which is on Säpo's list of criminal gangs and is compared to competitors such as Hells Angels and Bandidos.

Expressen revealed this week that he was a guest at Jimmie Åkesson's wedding last Saturday, where also Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch (KD) participated.

The reason why he was allowed to come to the wedding was, according to the party, that Hedarv is Mattias Karlsson's ex-wife's new criminal boyfriend.

Now the Social Democrats plan to call Säpo to the Riksdag justice committee to answer questions about how “security” can be guaranteed for leading politicians who party with representatives of organized crime in the future.

– It is of course deeply inappropriate and unacceptable that some of Sweden's highest-ranking politicians party with, or even close to, the gang criminal environment, says Annika Strandhäll (S) to Expressen.

– It is about the safety of the ultimate state leadership, and ultimately about protecting our democracy.

Expressen columnist Viktor Barth-Kron assesses that the fact that Jimmie Åkesson invited a leader of a criminal network to his wedding comes with a political price. Not least because SD is trying to sell itself to the voters as a party that has a hard line against crime, immigration and the like.

“The success is largely based on the fact that SD is perceived to have a credible policy in the public eye right now most prioritized issue – the fight against crime,” writes Barth-Kron.