"I have pretty good finances. I can even imagine covering his legal costs," GW Persson says on TV4's Nyhetsmorgon.
The man is charged with unlawful threats after placing apples and for placing a doll with a toy knife outside the home of Development Minister Benjamin Dousa (M). The man denies that he committed a crime but has been open about carrying out the act.
"He says it is an expression of freedom of expression. I support it 100 percent," says GW Persson.
I'm unreservedly on the perpetrator's side, and it doesn't happen all the time, you know.
Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) writes on X that GW Persson's statement is "astonishing":
"The fact that he is now standing behind suspected perpetrators who carry out threatening actions against politicians at their homes is crossing a sharp line."
SD leader Jimmie Åkesson believes that it is time for Leif GW Persson to retire and that it is completely ill-advised.
"To sit on TV with pompous self-confidence and, year after year, guess your way to popular appreciation may be something you have to live with. To trivialize, even encourage, threats against politicians is something entirely different," he writes on X.
