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Swedish neo-Nazis ‘chatted about killing Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer’

Members of the Nordic Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi group, talked about killing the justice minister of Sweden, an investigation by the Aftonbladet newspaper has revealed.

Swedish neo-Nazis 'chatted about killing Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer'
Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer, of the conservative Moderates. Photo: Lars Schröder/TT

“Spontaneously, I feel like I could imagine killing JEW lackey Gunnar Strömmer and serve life,” wrote one member of the Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motståndsrörelsen in Swedish, or NMR) according to the internal chat logs acquired by Aftonbladet.

“My feelings tell me that it would be a righteous act,” added the man, who holds a series of previous hate crime and molestation convictions.

“My thoughts exactly,” replied another.

The discussion, according to Aftonbladet, played out after a person in the group shared an interview with Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer in which he speaks about limiting freedom of association for Nazi groups and other radical groups that commit crimes.

Theirs are not the only messages of that kind posted in the chat.

Gross anti-Semitism, tributes to Adolf Hitler and threats towards homosexual people, among others, can be found in the thousands of messages read by Aftonbladet.

Several centre-left opposition politicians, such as Social Democrats Magdalena Andersson, Annika Strandhäll and Anders Ygeman, are discussed in threatening terms, as well as the Green Party’s MEP and former leader Alice Bah Kuhnke.

“Can’t wait until she’s lying in the bog,” one person wrote about Kuhnke, using an idiom that corresponds to “six feet under”.

Robin Andersson Malmros, deputy director of Segerstedtinstitutet – a research centre at Gothenburg University which researches violent extremism – and lecturer in police work at the University of Borås, told Aftonbladet the chat logs were unique.

“This is completely unedited and this is their real way of talking. It differs from how they express themselves in edited material which is used to reach a wider target group,” he said.

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ABBA

Abba tells Trump to stop using their music after he plays ‘Winner Takes It All’

The Swedish band Abba have asked US presidential candidate Donald Trump not to use their music after their hit 'The Winner Takes it All' was played at a rally in Minnesota.

Abba tells Trump to stop using their music after he plays 'Winner Takes It All'

“Together with the members of ABBA, we have discovered that videos have been released where ABBAs music/videos has been used at Trump events, and we have therefore requested that such use be immediately removed and taken down,” a spokesperson from Universal Music, Abba’s record company, told The Local.

“Universal Music Publishing AB and Polar Music International AB have not received any request, so no permission or license has been granted to Trump.”

A reporter for SvD was at a Trump rally in St Cloud, Minnesota, in July, and witnessed the 1980 hit being played to a crowd of 8,000 of Trump’s supporters. 

The spokesperson would not comment on whether the Abba members had any political objection to their music being used by Trump or the Republican Party, or on whether Universal had any grounds to request royalties or any right to ban a candidate from using their music at a rally.   

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