The background is well known by now. Ingerö was forced to resign last week – according to Ebba Busch for unrelated reasons – and in the same vein Skyttedal reported him to the police for molesting her during a party in 2014, an accusation Ingerö denies. However, the police dismissed the report because sexual harassment is statute-barred after five years.
Sara Skyttedal says in the interview that she chose to keep a good face all these years, but that she was close to sounding the alarm internally when she learned that Ingerö would become party secretary last fall. She also says that she was about to tell in connection with metoo, but that she settled for a hint on Facebook.
“The situation is becoming very unpleasant”
What caused the cup to overflow was instead a conflict over drug policy, her plan to legalize cannabis and a planned interview with SVT that the party leadership disliked. She says that Ingerö called her when she was in hospital with her son and shouted at her when she insisted on conducting the interview.
– The tone and language tear up old wounds. The situation becomes very unpleasant, even though it is so banal, she says.
In retrospect, she regrets that she did not pursue the cannabis issue in a different way, given the emotions that were stirred up in the party.
She also fears that her police report may have made her a pariah and that she risks losing her position as an EU parliamentarian.
– Centrally, the party has treated me with care. But I realize that individual members find it difficult to read about what happened and don’t know what to say to me, she says.
SVT has previously sought both Sara Skyttedal and Johan Ingerö to get their comments.