In the early hours of the 9th of December of the year 2000, a 17-year old Swedish boy, Daniel Wretström, was murdered in the suburb of Salem, near Stockholm. This murder has since then become a milestone of Swedish society. The event and its aftermath is very much a textbook example of what is wrong with Sweden today.
Daniel’s assaulters were mostly of immigrant backgrounds, his peers in age. In the weeks leading up to the murder, the Swedish press and mass media in general had begun a high-intensity campaign against “nazists” and “racists”, with headlines featuring violent rhetoric, such as “We will crush them” as it was uttered by Göran Persson, the former Swedish prime minister. It is nothing out of the ordinary for the Swedish media to attack nationalists, but I understand this was a specially designed campaign to combat the “extreme right”.
Swedish youth have for years been the prey of immigrant youth gangs, and especially those who display pride in their ethnic identity have been targeted. Since wearing a shirt with the Swedish flag to school is a punishable act in most Swedish schools, the message is crystal clear to foreign youths: Swedes are second class citizens, and lowest of all life-forms is the Swedish “racist”, the true untermenschen of Swedish society. The media and Swedish establisment like to portray themselves as bulwarks of democracy against the looming forces of racism and nazism, in a classic hero vs. villain style, but in reality it is a battle against Swedishness, as it used to be, as it still is to many. Ethnic Swedish identity is so despised by the establishment that it is outright denied, it does not exist to them (nor should it for anyone else, unless they want to be labeled racist).
Daniel was brutally murdered by a gang of immigrant youths, stabbed with a knife and battered with fists and wooden planks and finally left to expire on the side of a road in the middle of a chilly December night. His assailants attacked him because they perceived him to be a racist, a manifestation of evil, the villain, fair game by all accounts. We need to understand that this murder was not an isolated event, a random incident lacking cause and effect. It is the result of a long-running campaign to silence Swedish ethnic identity and to replace it with a cosmopolitan identity, that has been waged by the Swedish establishment. Daniel is a victim of far more than just a brutal murder, he is the victim of an anti-Swedish ideology that permeates Swedish society.
The judicial aftermath of the murder is as farcical as is the present state of Swedish society. Here is a quote from the site Salemfonden, an organization dedicated to commemorating Daniel:
” The legal consequences have been described as a farce, where judges and jurymen declared Swedish youth outlaws and with no legal rights. The killer, Khaled Odeh, was sentenced for manslaughter to psychiatric care since the court came to the conclusion that he suffered from temporary insanity when he committed the crime. When the verdict is formulated this way it is not unusual that the convicted is declared healthy after about a year and is released. Only six of his companions were prosecuted. Three of them were sentenced to forty hours of community service and contact with the social services. Two of those remaining were ordered to pay 1800 Swedish crowns (about 200 Euros) in fines and the last one was released on parole and ordered to pay 1800 crowns in fines. Is a Swedish boy’s life worth that little? Less than a speeding ticket?”
One can only conclude that these punishments are nothing more than a further green light to anti-Swedish violence, which is mostly felt by young Swedes, the ones who have never had a say in the creation of multicultural Sweden. For it is concrete political decisions that have taken Sweden to where she finds herself today, no matter how much politicans wish to evade responsiblity by saying that the development is inevitable. Yet, it is they, the Swedish youth, who pay the heaviest price on the streets of Sweden, while the decision-makers are able to buy themselves free of the enriching diversity and live in affluent, homogenous neighbourhoods.
The event of the murder has been commemorated each year since with a march through Salem. Almost without exception, more than a thousand people have showed up each year to pay their respect to Daniel and to protest against the anti-Swedish sentiment prevalent in Swedish society. In earlier years there was the risk of the entire event becoming a play ground for different political factions within the nationalist scene in Sweden, but I understand party-politics is finally being left behind and the different factions can unite in true volksfront-spirit. Of course, the media remains consistent and true to their line, portraying the event as a “hate-march” of “Nazis” and “Racists”, evidently because Swedish nationalists and Swedes in general who are against their new society, are unable to mourn, only able to hate. It is a sad state of affairs when ordinary Swedes are fed such blatantly subjective political propaganda through every imaginable public medium every single day as if it was the objective truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
However, the Salem manifestation remains one of the most important events in the nationalist calendar in Sweden and proves that there are many, thousands, who have opened their eyes.
For more information, visit Salemfonden, which is available in Swedish, English and German.
Here are some videos of the manifestation from previous years:
2001
2004
