Jomshof: Abolish the law on incitement against ethnic groups

Published 14 November 2024 at 16.23

Domestic. Richard Jomshof (SD), chairman of the Riksdag's justice committee, is now open to completely abolishing the controversial law on incitement against ethnic groups.

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Jomshof was recently indicted himself for incitement against a ethnic group after spreading satirical images about Muslims on X. However, the investigation was closed, and the SD top has himself been strongly critical of how the law is designed and how it is applied.

Despite the party's criticism was part of the SD and expanded the sedition legislation further as recently as last summer, so that it is now also forbidden to “disparage the Holocaust” and the like.

In a new interview with the SD channel Riks, Jomshof states that he personally was against the extension of the law, but that he was overruled by the party.

– If we have made a decision democratically, everyone must stand up for it, including me, even if I can criticize internally.

He also explains that he is now in favor of abolishing the law.

– Either it includes everything or we remove it completely. Because it is selective and that means it is discriminatory, says Richard Jomshof to Riks.

According to Jomshof, you must be able to “say just about anything, even crazy things, and then we deal with it with words” .