It is a morning like any morning, this Thursday, May 15, on the set of “Riks”, the far -right Swedish chain broadcast on Youtube from a studio in Brom, in the west of Stockholm. Sitting on a sofa, in a setting worthy of an IKEA catalog, two local elected officials from the Sweden Democrats Party (SD, Populist right) discuss the wind crisis – a chestnut tree for the chain, which swears by nuclear. Then, they wonder: why do so many freshly built apartments remain empty, when so many people seek to find accommodation? For Elias Norgren, elected municipal official in Västeras, the answer is all found: “The Swedes do not want Islamic State fighters [organisation Etat islamique] as neighbors. They don't want cockroaches that sow chaos. »»
This kind of remarks is not unusual on this channel, launched in November 2020 by the SD communication service, which today has 148,000 subscribers. Officially, the editorial staff of “Riks” and its 11 employees, including none of which has become independent of the far -right formation in the summer of 2023. In reality, the chain continues to serve as a megaphone for the party, an ally of the liberal right -wing government coalition, since the fall of 2022.
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Source: Lemonde