‘Inappropriate’ Anne Frank comments prompted Swedish Democrats to suspend party officials

Stockholm: A Swedish Democratic Party official has been suspended by far-right parties for making degrading comments about Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank.

In a now-deleted Instagram post, Rebecca Farrenqvist called Anne “immoral,” according to Swedish media.

Anne, who wrote a diary while hiding in Amsterdam before her capture, died in February 1945 at the age of 15 in Nazi Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

A post by Fallenkvist, 26, head of television for the Swedish Democratic Party, provoked strong reactions from Jewish groups and Israeli ambassador Ziv Nevo Kulman, tweeting: Memories of Anne Frank. ‘ His post included what appeared to be a screenshot of his Instagram post for Fallenkvist.

The media director of the Swedish Democratic Party, Oskar Cavalli Björkmann, told Swedish news agency TT that the party took Farenqvist’s “insensitive and inappropriate” comments seriously and would launch an internal investigation into the matter.

It remained unclear what point Farenqvist wanted to make in her comments to Anne’s diary, but she later sent a text message to the Swedish newspaper. Dagens Nyheter She said she was misunderstood.

“This book is a moving depiction of human good and evil,” Farenqvist said in a message to the newspaper. The virtuous Anne (which I have emphasized) contrasts with the evils of Nazism. there was.”

The Swedish Democratic Party was founded in the 1980s by people who were active in right-wing extremist groups, including neo-Nazis. The party emerged in the September 11 elections as his second largest party in Sweden under the leadership of Jimmy Akesson.

On Friday, Sweden’s three centre-right parties agreed to form a coalition with the support of the Swedish Democratic Party, which is moving towards mainstream politics, but remain hardline on immigration. I’m here.