Jomshof steps aside – suspected of crime

The Chairman of the Justice Committee, Richard Jomshof (SD), will be charged with suspicion of agitation against a ethnic group. He will now temporarily step down from the chairmanship.

» Updated: September 25 2024

» Published: September 13 2024

Jomshof steps aside – suspected of crime
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Richard Jomshof has shared two Islam-critical drawings on the platform X. He is summoned to an interrogation on Tuesday and has been informed in advance that he will be suspected of a crime.

On Tuesday, I am summoned to an interrogation where I will be suspected of incitement to racial hatred, he says in Kvartal's podcast Fredagsintervjun.

Joakim Zander, prosecutor at the special prosecutor's office, confirms that Jomshof will be heard but does not want to go into details.

I can confirm Jomshof's own information. He will be heard as reasonably suspected of incitement to racial hatred on Tuesday. But beyond that, I won't say anything about the case, says Joakim Zander to TT.

Shared in May

Jomshof says he did not write the posts in question himself, but that they are posts he re-published from other accounts on May 28 this year.

I've never experienced anything like this before. It's clear that it's not something you want to do, but it's just a matter of accepting the situation and going there and speaking for my sake. I can't do much else, he says in the podcast about the interrogation.

According to Jomshof, they were satirical images he shared.

I don't want this to be about my chairmanship of the committee, I don't want our cooperation parties to get these questions again about whether they have confidence in me or not, but I want this to be about the issue at hand.

The issue at hand is Islamism, whether one should be allowed to criticize it or not, and it's about freedom of speech.

Marttinen takes over

Linda Lindberg, the SD's group leader in the Riksdag, writes in a comment that Adam Marttinen will temporarily take over as chairman of the Justice Committee.

"In principle, this is of course a very important issue. Our freedom of speech should be far-reaching when it comes to the right to problematize, criticize, and even parody important social issues in order to create debate", writes Linda Lindberg.

"For the time being, many question marks remain, and we want to wait until the interrogation is completed before we comment further on this."

Two images that Richard Jomshof shared on X on May 28 are being investigated as incitement to racial hatred.

In one of the images, a migrant family is welcomed into a house with the text "Europe" on it. In the next image, the house has been set on fire and the father and son in the family are running away screaming: "Islam first".

In the other image, a man and two women in a boat marked "England" rescue a Pakistani migrant from drowning. In the next image, the migrant attacks the three people in the boat and beats the man overboard with a club with the text "Rape jihad".

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