The disputed law does not give the plaintiff the right to anonymity. The plaintiff, i.e. the victim, is not mentioned in the law text.
The Instagram post was removed after more than 15 hours. Busch has now posted the post again, but without the incorrect text. TT has sought Ebba Busch, who responds through her press secretary that the image was incorrect and that the error "has now been corrected".
"EDIT: The human factor has been involved", Busch herself writes under the new post.
The Social Democrats' legal policy spokesperson Teresa Carvalho does not buy the excuse.
"Ebba Busch blames her incorrect post on the human factor. Of course, everyone can make mistakes. But the inaccuracy was not a small detail", Carvalho writes to TT and continues:
"The Swedish people must be able to trust that what the Deputy Prime Minister says is true."
"Completely absurd"
The original post has also been criticized by lawyers.
"This is just sloppy. Here, the Ministry of Justice has worked for a long time to investigate and write a well-thought-out proposal, only to see how a minister who reaches 10,000 times more than the department communicates about it completely absurdly", writes law professor Mårten Schultz on X.
”The Christian Democrats are starting the new year in a strikingly ignorant way”, writes lawyer Peter Hellman.
"Rolling around"
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) dismisses the criticism and says that the most important thing is that the legislation with anonymous witnesses is in place and that one should not make "a sideshow out of a main issue".
It was an incorrect description and it has been corrected, says Kristersson to TT.
Those who have been against it all the time seem to be rolling around in joy over the incorrect description. I can offer that, but the big thing is the decision itself.
The post was also shared on Facebook, where the text was changed to: "Now, those who have witnessed a crime can testify anonymously" on Thursday morning.
As of January 1, anonymous witness statements are allowed for suspected crimes that can lead to at least two years' imprisonment. This can happen both during police investigations and in courts, if there is a significant risk that the witness or the witness's relatives may be exposed to serious crime.
