A spokeswoman for the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) party has been suspended for her formation after making a series of denigrating comments against the figure of Anne Frank, the German girl murdered by the Nazis when World War II was nearing its final phase
In a now-deleted Instagram post, Rebecka Fallenkvist called Frank "immoral" for representing "excitement itself," among other comments.
The post by the 26-year-old spokeswoman, director of television programming for the party, has prompted innumerable reactions from various Jewish groups after the disqualifications leveled at the young woman who wrote a diary while hiding in Amsterdam before being captured and confined in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Nazi Germany where he died at the age of 15.
To the widespread condemnation has also been added that of the Israeli ambassador to Sweden, Ziv Nevo Kulman, who in a tweet has "strongly condemned this despicable insult, disrespectful to the memory of Anne Frank". His post included what appeared to be a screenshot of Fallenkvist's Instagram post.
The media director of the Sweden Democrats, Oskar Cavalli-Bjorkman, has told the Swedish news agency TT that the party takes Fallenkvist's "insensitive and inappropriate" comments seriously and has announced the opening of an internal investigation into the case.
Sweden Democrats was founded in the 1980s by former activists from Swedish far-right groups, including some former members of neo-Nazi groups.
The party broke out as Sweden's second largest party in the 9/11 elections under the leadership of Jimmie Akesson.
After the negotiations held in recent weeks, Sweden will have a new conservative prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, who will govern in a minority with a coalition of three right-wing parties with the external support of the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), after closing this Friday the agreements to form a government.
