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.

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“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.
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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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“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.