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In August 2018, artist Frej Larsson from Ronneby was prosecuted for two cases of threats to an official.
It was partly about the lyrics to the song “Then They Will Shoot You” and an Instagram post.
On October 29, he was acquitted in the district court for the following reasons:
The district court has found that the evidence was insufficient to link him to the posting of the Instagram post. As for the song on Spotify, it has not been shown that the artist intended a serious threat of violence. “Councilor Maria Hellberig wrote in the Stockholm District Court in a press release after the verdict.
Convicted in the Court of Appeal
The verdict was appealed to the Court of Appeals, where he was convicted last year of threatening an official.
The Court of Appeal found that the text of the song “Then they should shoot him” actually contains threats of violence against a police officer and “that the threat would likely cause great fear for the personal safety of the police.”
The court also found that the artist wrote the song to get revenge on the policewoman. The fund is a police intervention against a concert in Södermalm after suspicions of drug crimes.
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– The Court of Appeal has concluded that the man with the threat of violence has attacked the police in revenge for his statements in the media, the lawyer for the Court of Appeal, Staffan, said earlier in a press release. Lind, chair of the case.
The Court of Appeal also examined whether Frej Larsson’s right to freedom of expression was violated if convicted, but concluded that this would not happen.
Now the case is up to the Supreme Court according to a decision on authorization to appeal in the case.
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