Political pressure was behind the Swedish Police Authority's decision to deny the far-right politician Rasmus Paludan a demonstration permit, writes Dagens Nyheter. Now there are demands for an extraordinary meeting of the Police Transparency Council for the National Police Commissioner to answer questions.
"We have to get to the bottom of this," says Rasmus Ling (MP), member of the Riksdag's Justice Committee and the police's advisory council. In a total of ten judgments, a number of different administrative courts have given the police a lesson.