A few weeks before the legislative elections, in early July, Annie Lööf would have been targeted by a neonazi detract. This liberal, which has always refused to pact with the extreme right, has become a honest figure of nationalist circles.
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On February 28, 1986, the Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister, Olof Palme, was killed by two bullets, at the exit of a Stockholm cinema. Seventeen years later, on September 11, 2003, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh, stabbed fatally, succumbed to her injuries.
Two political assassinations that rocked the Scandinavian kingdom. And this dizzying question: was a third narrowly avoided this summer?
For the moment, the question has no final answer. But it has been posed since the confession of a man, Theodor Engström, 33, neat for serious psychological and militant disorders within the North Resistance Movement (NMR), the main neonazi organization in Sweden. On July 6, in the middle of the political week, in Visby, on the island of Gotland, he was arrested when he had just fatally injured a 64 -year -old woman, national coordinator for psychiatric care in communities local.
campaign of rare violence
But, since then, the alleged murderer, suspected of terrorism, said that he also intended to kill Annie Lööf, the 39 -year -old center leader, who was in a restaurant located in About fifty meters from the place where the attack took place. She participated in a seminar on the energy policy of her movement. A few moments later, she was to give a press conference, finally canceled.
The Macabres intentions by Theodor Engström were unveiled by the prosecutor in charge of the investigation on August 25, just under three weeks of the legislative elections on September 11. Cheffe de File des Centuristes since 2011, Annie Lööf said she was “upset”. But “hatred should not win,” she simply added, taking care not to politicize the case, while the leaders of all parties supported him.
Then the campaign has left, almost as if nothing had happened. Some editorialists were surprised: would violence against policies be trivialized to the point that an assassination project against a leader would hardly arouse more reactions? And what about the role of the extreme right in the propagation of hatred and insults against that which directs the only party of the traditional right to still block the nationalist formation of the Democrats of Sweden (SD)?
In a tweet, the social democratic Ann Linde, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has tried to launch the debate by affirming that “the hatred that the SDs and other far-right forces direct against Annie Lööf led to that “.
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