The false spread of rumors against the social services and Sweden has caused several parties to react.

On Friday, the Liberals' Nyamko Sabuni announced that the party wants a special unit to be established within the National Board of Health and Welfare.

- We need a unit at the national level that can be a support for the municipalities that need it when they handle sensitive matters.

Both in processing and decision-making, says Sabuni.

The party also wants the social services to be covered by the Blue Light Act.

It came into force in 2020 and means that anyone who attacks or disturbs the police, rescue service or ambulance personnel can be sentenced to prison.

Kristersson: "I believe in that"

Nyamko Sabuni also says that she will extend a hand to the moderate leader Ulf Kristersson to get support for the proposal in the Riksdag.

Something Kristersson welcomes.  

- I believe in blue light legislation.

Those who exercise this kind of office on behalf of the state must have extra strong protection, I completely agree with that.

Ulf Kristersson describes the threats against the social services as "really dangerous".

This can lead to children receiving poorer protection and not being caught, he says.

- We need to ensure that the social services receive the support and protection they need.

It can not be the case that one can threaten that the social services will not make decisions about caring for children.

Must meet the campaign

The government also wants to see extra strong protection and has recently come up with a similar proposal.

- The important thing now is to face this disinformation campaign.

Then we want to be able to remove illegal content from the web.

To ensure that such campaigns are not spread and that this hatred and threat to government officials can not flourish on social media, says Minister of Integration and Migration Anders Ygeman (S).

The Sweden Democrats, for their part, criticize the police and say that the authority does not investigate crimes on the internet to a sufficient extent.

- There are a lot of posts that could be illegal threats, perhaps extortion and even threats of terrorism.

In my opinion, as far as I know, the police have not done much to investigate and prosecute these crimes, says Ludvig Aspling, migration policy spokesperson.