Ekeroth: "The Occupation of Our Public Spaces is a Fact"

EDITORIAL • I wish this were old news. I wish I could say: we’ve already talked about this, we’ve already warned about this, that belongs to the past. But that’s not the case. That’s why I keep repeating myself. As I have done during my nearly 20 years in the Sweden Democrats – and as I did long before I became politically active. This is about how Sweden’s public spaces, piece by piece, are being taken away from Swedes. Beaches, squares, school graduations, residential areas, buses, parks, and town centers – places that were once obvious, safe, and Swedish, but which in the new Sweden are increasingly characterized by anxiety, dominance, and aggression.

This is what an occupation looks like. Not always with uniforms and banners. Sometimes it happens through elevated noise levels, a threatening presence, disrespect, clan behaviors, and a total inability – or unwillingness – to adapt to the country one has arrived in.

For Samnytt TV, I traveled around Sweden a few years ago and made reports about exactly this. I met a desperate mother who had to watch her residential area transform before her eyes – and then saw her son subjected to anti-Swedish hatred by people whom Sweden had welcomed here.

We visited a favorite spot outside Örebro, a beach that Swedish families described as “sheer hell” after aggressive immigrant gangs took over the place. We went to Kil in Värmland, in a report that went viral, where children and parents spoke about violence and insecurity. In the series “The New Exciting Sweden“, we traveled to several towns and spoke with people who testified to the same thing: a country that had changed, and a Swedish population that was increasingly going silent, backing off, and adapting to the unacceptable.

All these reports – and more besides – can be seen on our YouTube channel.

Samnytt was among the first alternative media outlets to seriously begin documenting this development in video reports. Unfortunately, the trend hasn’t reversed since then. On the contrary, it has continued in the same direction.

Video clip from the promenade Gröningen in Helsingborg in 2020:

Aggressive Dominance Behavior

Recently, we spoke with a woman who witnessed aggressive dominance behavior during a graduation celebration. That time, the conflict seemed mainly to be between various immigrant families or clans. But the effect was the same: the public space was taken over. Swedes withdrew. The celebration, which should have been filled with joy, community, and pride, turned instead into yet another reminder of what Sweden has become.

If you missed the feature, you can see it here.

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Another recurring phenomenon is at the beaches. Every summer brings new testimonies. New stories. New families who only wanted to swim, sunbathe, and give their children a nice day – but who instead are met with chaos, a threatening atmosphere, filth, shouting, fights, or pure disrespect.

The most recent example went viral on social media after a father recounted his family’s visit to the classic Skara Sommarland. What was supposed to be a summer memory, according to him, turned out to be something entirely different.

“It ended up as one of the worst memories that we as a family have experienced,” wrote the father in a Facebook post that received a lot of attention.

The Tip of the Iceberg

This is not the first time. It won’t be the last. And what we see is only the tip of the iceberg.

Because behind the viral posts, behind the reports, and behind the individual stories are thousands of silent, everyday incidents that never become news. A threatening comment on the bus. A gang that takes over a beach. Someone who cuts in line, shouts, spits, insults, or stares down a Swedish family until they choose to leave. Small events, some might say. But that is the very point.

It doesn’t always take a blow for people to understand who is in charge. In a society where many already know that the slightest resistance can lead to disproportionate reactions, often the tone, the look, the group, the presence is enough. Dominance doesn’t always need to be stated. You can still feel it.

And the Swede backs off.

Not because the Swede is cowardly, but because the Swede is shaped by another society. A society where you showed consideration, stood in line, kept quiet in public, let families with children be, and didn’t view every public space as an arena for power plays. The Swede is simply not made for the harshness politicians have imported and then denied.

We are like hobbits in Lord of the Rings: peaceful, trusting, attached to home, the soil, traditions, and the small world where people show each other respect.

What the others are, the reader can decide for themselves.