The warning, which was addressed to the judge in an email to the district court, goes beyond the limit of "what a councilor in the exercise of his authority has reason to tolerate," according to the district court's ruling, which is now under review. The penalty is set at 40 daily fines.
In several previous appeals court rulings, people have been acquitted. Earlier this year, the Svea Court of Appeal acquitted a teenage boy who called a policeman a "cocksucker" and the Court of Appeal for Western Sweden acquitted a man who called a policewoman a "fucking police cunt".
As far as is known, the verdict from the Court of Appeal for Skåne and Blekinge is the first conviction by the Court of Appeal for insulting a civil servant, which became a crime last summer.
