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The SD leaders and spouses Linnéa and Henrik Vinge have been reported to the police by a former top candidate in the party, Aftonbladet can reveal.
Mari Malm was the SD’s third name on the regional list in Stockholm when she was suddenly excluded before the election – and she wants the police to investigate the Vinge couple for slander and false information.
– I am terribly disappointed in how they lied and handled the whole situation, says Mari Malm.
At the end of last week, Mari Malm filed a police report against the power couple Henrik and Linnéa Vinge. She wants the police to investigate whether the circumstances surrounding her expulsion from the party just before the election last year may have been criminal.
In her letter to the police, Mari Malm herself writes about the accusations that were made against her:
“The crimes they accuse me of are partly the theft of a drone and documents from the party’s office, and partly that I would have threatened a board member. Since it is not true, I have asked to see the basis for the accusations. They deny it to me.”
Alleged to have acted threateningly
The background is well described. On August 28 last year, exactly two weeks before the election, Mari Malm found out that the Sweden Democrats’ membership committee had opened a personnel file about her.
In a letter, the members’ committee explained the accusations against her, including the disappearance of a drone and documents and the destruction of the party’s materials in connection with her admitting “a then suspended person”.
Mari Malm is also said to have “acted threateningly and inappropriately towards a member of the district board”, according to the membership committee’s letter.
The accusations from the party must have quickly spread widely among other party members, according to Mari Malm.
– If it had been the case that I had done something wrong, it would have been okay, but when it’s just pure lies you get a little irritated, she says.
Reputation destroyed
Mari Malm claims that it was Linnéa and Henrik Vinge who were driving the purges in SD Stockholm, something that both Aftonbladet and others media reported on before. Linnéa Vinge is now deputy group leader for SD in Stockholm city hall, while Henrik Vinge is deputy party leader at national level.
She has been thinking about reporting the couple to the police for a long time.
– I was popular and liked by the members of the party, and did a good job, but my reputation has been completely destroyed. It feels like you threw five, six years on the rubbish heap. I have been about to file a police report for a long time, but felt that now was the time.
In addition to Mari Malm, Göran Ek, then second on the regional list, was excluded from the party shortly before the election. Last spring, then group leader Peter Wallmark was excluded, but also his wife Christina Wallmark and circuit chairman Urban Emson.
Aftonbladet has unsuccessfully sought Henrik and Linnéa Vinge for a comment.