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Translation:
The incident occurred on Monday evening after Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M), Minister of Civil Defense, attended a meeting with the moderate party group.
The minister has shared a clip of a group of people following him in the Old Town, and writes:
"When I stepped out at Mynttorget and was about to walk home, it looked like this. A group of people with antisocial dominant behavior started following me, which resulted in me simply not being able to get home, for the simple reason that my address here in Stockholm is not public," Bohlin writes in the post.
The minister instead returned to the Riksdag building.
Investigating crime
The clip shows the seemingly lonely minister and people shouting at him that he should be ashamed and that he has blood on his hands.
The police are now investigating the crime.
The clip shows how people pursue the seemingly lonely minister and shout after him that he should be ashamed and that he has blood on his hands. Photo: SVT "What is the next limit?"
In Morgonstudion, Bohlin commented on the incident further:
He did not want to talk about the criticism of the government.
Kristersson: “Rabble-rousing”
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson writes to SVT:
“I have a message tonight to the Palestine activists in Stockholm: Sweden is a democracy and you are welcome to express your opinion on the Middle East. But immediately stop threatening Swedish politicians. I now expect all parties and all party leaders to immediately distance themselves from the mob-like behavior that Carl Oskar Bohlin has been subjected to tonight.”
How were they ”threatening” him? To shout that he should be ashamed is not a threat, Mr. Kristersson.
And about the ”normal behavior”, I would say it’s okay to do something not ”normal” when expressing your discontent about complicity in a genocide. Maybe complicity in a genocide should be ”not normal” and he ”crossed a line”? And then dodge the question about the political issue.
But I guess the demonstrators should just use the approved method of influencing politicians and be born rich and well connected instead.
Are you for real? About eight hooded men following you through the streets at night is clearly threatening. Any person would be uncomfortable in that situation.
He has... the government he's part of condemns it.