In a noted tweet, Mats Skogkär wrote on his own Twitter account on Wednesday about the ongoing protests in the US:

"When you see the left's most sexual arousal over the riots in the United States, over the looting, fires and violence, it also becomes easier to understand its quest to create similar conditions through immigration here with a large, immigrant, ethnified and segregated underclass."

Sydsvenskan's lead writer Jonas Kanje has taken open distance from the tweet and now Mats Skogkär will be relocated to a non-writing service, writes the magazine Journalisten.

Refuses to relocate

In an email to the Journalist, Mats Skogkär confirms that he has been told that he will be relocated but that he will refuse repositioning with reference to freedom of expression.

“I believe that my actions fall within the scope of the broad freedom of expression that applies in Sweden. Bonnier News has freedom of speech as one of its core values. I myself over the years have written a lot of leaders on the theme of freedom of expression and that it must also apply to opinions and statements that are perceived as offensive, "Mats Skogkär writes in the email.

The tweet has also been debated on, among other things, Dagens Nyheter's editorial page. Mats Skogkär writes to the journal The journalist that the tweet was "stupid and should never have been published" but to accept a relocation would be "to accept the label as a right-wing extremist that Dagens Nyheter's leader page is now trying to paste on me. I'm not going to do that. "

The cultural news is looking for Mats Skogkär and Sydsvenskan's editor-in-chief Jonas Kanje.