Frej Larsson was released for threatening an official in the district court, but was subsequently sentenced in the High Court for threatening a police officer with a song text. The Supreme Court will now decide whether to deal with the matter in the highest instance. State Prosecutor Petra Lundh writes in a statement to HD that the court's ruling should apply.
Frej Larsson was convicted of threatening an official for text lines in a song that reads: "... fuck where you live", "[police name] is an ugly fish and then all small fish should suffer" and "then she should shot ".
An Instagram picture posted on Frej Larsson's account, which was one of the charges, was not considered a threat to an official. The picture depicted a fish named after the police.
"Objective threat"Larsson has appealed to the Supreme Court, which has not yet decided whether the case should be tried. But on Tuesday came a letter from the state prosecutor (the country's highest prosecutor) Petra Lundh. She writes that the court's ruling should apply.
Lundh writes that the lines of text in question "in the objective sense constituted a threat of violence to persons" and continues:
"The fact that the threat has been presented in a song text and in a music genre with aggressive and socially critical appeal makes no difference in the assessment".
The Supreme Court has not yet decided whether or not to try the case.