SD in the smear campaign – warns tourists – Aftonbladet

For nearly a year ago announced the Sweden Democrats on begging and the critics were not long in coming. Now it’s time again.

– We have made the same assessment now as at the ad before the election and see no reason to stop it, says Jesper Pettersson, on traffic management in Stockholm.

The Sweden Democrats’ great pardon campaign was hard to miss for subway commuters at Östermalmstorg subway in Stockholm on Monday morning. In the campaign that covers the roof of the metro escalator turning the Sweden Democrats to foreign tourists and asking them to apologize for begging EU migrants in the streets. They promise that it will return for 2018, seeing that there have been changes since the Sweden Democrats is growing as a party.

In May last year the Sweden Democrats a campaign against begging, also in the Stockholm underground, which then received much criticism .

– We are prepared to get a lot of complaints. We know this is controversial but there is not much we can do, says Jesper Pettersson, press officer for traffic management in Stockholm.

“No option to stop”

Jesper Pettersson says that the campaign is scheduled by a media company and that SL had seen the campaign in advance.

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– Previously, when Sweden Democrats announced it has been controversial. When it comes to political advertising, we can just watch if it violates any law, and we can not see that it does. Then we have no option as the authority to stop it, says Jesper Pettersson.

The Sweden Democrats say they feel a responsibility to be a voice out of the Swedes who do not feel they can stand for social development and Sweden’s open approach EU migrants begging.

“Horrified”

– several quarters we have heard the foreign tourists who have been horrified, both by the media and personal experiences. We have the widespread begging that no one can escape, and how it will proceed with the politicians’ good will, says Henrik Vinge, press spokesman for the Sweden Democrats.

That they chose that particular Ostermalmstorg about the ad space that allowed the specific campaign and the number and tourists passing at the station says Henrik Vinge.