Det Fria Sverige (2017)

Det Fria Sverige is a Swedish far-right movement founded on November 25, 2017 by Magnus Söderman.

History

Det fria Sverige was formed on 25 November 2017 by the editors of the podcast radio programs Motgift and Ingrid & Conrad. Antidote is a National Socialist podcast radio that was previously linked to the Swedes' party. Dan Eriksson from Motgift was originally chairman of Det Fria Sverige and Ingrid Carlqvist vice chairman. Ingrid Carlqvist later left the association.

Svenskarnas hus (House of the Swedes)

In 2018, DFS members collected over one million kroner for the purchase of a property in Älgarås in Töreboda municipality. The old industrial premises, which was named Svenskarnas hus, is today a permanent common point for the association's members.

Leadership

DFS is led by Dan Eriksson and Magnus Söderman, both with a long background in National Socialist and racial ideological organizations. Dan Eriksson has a background in the National Democrats, Info-14 and the Swedes' party. Söderman has previously been the ideologue of the Swedish Resistance Movement (which today calls itself the Nordic Resistance Movement) and has since been active in the Swedish Party.

Chairman 

• Dan Eriksson (2017-)

Vice chairman 

• Magnus Söderman

Älgarås

At the end of January 2023, DFS announced that they are launching a "safety effort", under the name Trygghetsinitiativet Älgarås. The initiative includes night walking in the areas of Älgarås that they describe as unsafe.

A notice that the business is starting up is posted in the DFS-linked Facebook group "All about Älgarås". The local board explains there that the development cannot be "accepted" and "that's why Det Fria Sverige in Norra Skaraborg has decided to immediately begin a major security operation in Älgarås".

On DFS's website, they write that the Älgarås Security Initiative "will have as large a presence as possible during evenings and nights as long as necessary and thus hope to disturb the person or those who believe that Älgarås is a place for criminal or antisocial behavior".

Antisemitism

On Det fria Sverige's Telegram channel in 2019, Dan Eriksson posted a quote describing how Martin Luther believed that Jews should be treated and which Luther expressed in his anti-Semitic book from the 16th century "On the Jews and their Lies". Synagogues and Jewish schools are to be burned, rabbis are to be punished with death if they preach, and Jews are to be sent to forced labor. Eriksson asks in the thread:

"What do you think of Luther's solution to that eternal question?"

In Det fria Sweden's newspaper Nationalisten from February 2021, a columnist writes that "Sweden may need a dose of National Socialism or fascism to ride out the storm and deal with the threats."