While interviewing senior Sweden Democrat Richard Jomshof at the party’s EU election vigil, a reporter from the Expressen tabloid noted that the controversial techno hit L’amour toujours was playing in the venue. 

The hit, by Italian DJ Gigi d’Agostino, has been co-opted by far-right groups in Germany in recent years, who have replaced the original lyrics with the Nazi slogan “Ausländer raus, Deutschland den Deutschen” (“foreigners out, Germany for Germans”). As a result it has been banned at several major events in Germany.

The reporter asks Jomshof if he knows of the song, which he first denies and then adds “it’s the German one, isn’t it? It’s not my kind of music”.

He is then asked whether it is inappropriate to play at an election vigil to which he begins to respond “no, it depends…”

Jomshof doesn’t get any further before he is interrupted by fellow MP David Lång, who is heard on the recording loudly singing “Ausländer raus” as he walks up to the pair and then suddenly catches himself, saying to the reporter, “oh shit, are you recording this?”

According to the Expressen reporter, he then tried to grab their recording equipment.

Lång walked off after Jomshof asked him to leave, and then left the party 20 minutes later, refusing to answer questions about the incident.

Sweden Democrat group leader Linda Lindberg told Expressen in a written statement: “My interpretation is that there were no ulterior motives behind David’s actions, but it’s blatantly obvious that he was heavily over-refreshed and generally buffoonish. As group leader I will speak to him tomorrow about this and stress that we expect better behaviour in the future.”