- He is portrayed as an important person in this context, says freelance journalist Abdullatif Haj Mohammad in Sundsvall, who reacted when he saw Svidén appear in the campaign films online, and began to check out his background.

Ove Svidén was a parliamentary candidate for the Center Party in 2006 and 2010. In the spring of 2010, however, his planned election campaign crashed after SVT reported that he ran a website with lines of conspiracy theories.

Among other things, they were about the fact that financial families were behind the Estonia disaster and the murder of Anna Lindh, and that Jews were behind the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 and the Holocaust.

The website had been up for several years and Ove Svidén had also presented it internally within the Center Party and denied accusations of being anti-Semitic, but the revelation made the party stop printing its ballot papers and exclude Ove Svidén.

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In the following years, he continued to spread his theories - now with a focus on the Swedish social services' care of children.

According to Ove Svidén, this was an extensive municipal human trafficking where children taken into care were sold on to pedophiles and organ sales.

Ove Svidén passed away in 2020, but right now his ideas are being spread in the ongoing campaign against the social services' care, where Svidén is portrayed as a prominent expert.

Abdullatif Haj Mohammad has found both video and text posts on social media where Ove Svidén is featured.

- He becomes a kind of proof that kidnappings of children have been discussed for a long time in Sweden, says Abdullatif Haj Mohammad, who now works with reports for Arabic-language media, where he wants to draw Arabic speakers' attention to Ove Svidén's role and the importance of source criticism.

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The journalist about the conspiracy theories