I read in the media that British nationalist Mark Collett, labeled as a neo-Nazi by mass media and the Swedish anti-extremist organization Expo, was reportedly stopped at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport on Friday and denied entry to the country, despite there being no criminal suspicion.
Collett, who leads the British nationalist organization “Patriotic Alternative”, is described in media as a leading figure within far-right circles in Britain and was invited as a speaker to “Det fria Sveriges” (Free Sweden’s) summer festival in Töreboda, a town in central Sweden. However, Swedish police denied Collett entry to Sweden, and on his Telegram channel, Collett writes that he was told he posed a threat to public order, society’s structure, and the values on which Sweden and Europe are built.
According to his own account, he was detained at the airport for over 25 hours without access to either his luggage or passport, and without criminal suspicion or trial.
I had no idea who this person was, but after this macabre action by Swedish border police, I watched a British documentary about him and can only conclude that Sweden, as usual, overreacts and uses double standards when making decisions.
Collett and his party are nationalists who want their own people to be prioritized in society over immigrants, a development that has grown and escalated in pace with irresponsible migration policy, which in the long run affects their own citizens, who must pay the bill and step aside. Much like the development in Sweden, as well as other parts of Europe, where conservative/right-nationalist parties are growing as a consequence of mass migration to the EU and the accompanying increased crime and worsened conditions for their own people.
One doesn’t have to agree with this, but Mark Collett has the right to hold this opinion and run a political party with these values. This is not grounds for denying him entry to Sweden. And it also rhymes very poorly with the fact that we don’t stop either “returning” ISIS terrorists at the border or, for that matter, so-called Islamist hate preachers who regularly travel in and out of the country, to give some examples.
Moreover, we in Sweden are very good at beating our chests when it comes to freedom of speech and pointing fingers at other countries that engage in opinion suppression/opinion persecution, but apparently we are no better ourselves.
This is so absurd that words fail me. That a person who has committed no wrong should be denied entry to the country based on his values not being sufficiently politically correct.
Shameful, Sweden!
Jenny Piper
