The Swedish Board of Migration backs down
Swedish Board of Migration loses its precedent-setting anti-Israel case.
In a landmark victory for democracy, human rights, freedom of speech and sound common sense, the Swedish Board of Migration has turned tail and decided to reinstate sacked employee Mr Lennart Eriksson.
This after a senior officer at the Board of Migration, Mr Eugène Palmér, launched his own state-financed anti-Israel campaign abusing his position of power as Mr Eriksson’s employer. The failed campaign has cost the already hard-hit Swedish taxpayer enormous sums of money in compensation and legal costs.
28 months ago, Mr Eriksson was summoned to his then head of department, Mr Eugène Palmér, who summarily informed him that as Eriksson had used his own private computer at home to write in his own blog that Israel was a democracy, he was no longer considered suitable as head of an asylum assessment unit at the Migration Board. Mr Palmér further informed him that it had come to his notice that Eriksson voted Conservative and that this was an “unorthodox” choice for an employee of the Board of Migration. The Conservative Party is the largest political party in the ruling Swedish government coalition.
Lennart Eriksson was removed from his position as head of the asylum assessment unit so he took his case to court. A verdict in county court ruled that the Migration Board had acted unlawfully, whereupon the Board used a technical loophole in Swedish legislation – and Swedish taxpayers’ money – to buy out Mr Eriksson from his position. Mr Eriksson has no legal right to contest this move and was accordingly forced to accept the financial settlement in lieu of his job and future professional and financial prospects.
However, he again took his case to County Court. The Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman, in a verdict in September 2009, ruled that the Board’s actions had contravened Mr Eriksson’s civil and human rights. Eriksson’s lawyer, Mr Allan Stutzinsky, argued among other things that the Migration Board had used public funds to purchase Mr Eriksson’s democratic rights, an act that he contested was illegal according to the Swedish constitution. The Swedish constitution protects the right of every citizen to freedom of expression and opinion, and using money to buy someone out of his job on account of the opinions he expresses in his private life contravenes these fundamental rights.
In uncharacteristically forthright criticism of the Migration Board’s heavy-handed trampling of those rights, the Parliamentary Ombudsman advised the parties to come to an agreement in keeping with the law of the land.
Accordingly, Lennart Eriksson has been fully reinstated, he has been granted additional compensation, and all legal costs for both parties are to be borne by the Swedish Board of Migration. In other words, the Swedish taxpayer is funding the failed anti-Israel adventure of Swedish government employee Mr Eugène Palmér.
There is now considerable domestic criticism of the high cost to the taxpayer of the Migration Board’s attempt to regulate Swedish citizens’ voting patterns through the use of public funds.
Mr Eugène Palmér, who instigated the scandal by sacking Lennart Eriksson on account of his privately held political views, has been removed from his operational post. He still receives full pay courtesy of the Swedish taxpayer but his salary is no longer linked to any specific assignment or operational requirement. At Swedish taxpayers’ expense, he has been given what is euphemistically known as a “sideways promotion”. He is being kept out of the public eye since it is felt he will be less able to do public-relations damage to the Swedish Board of Migration, which is still formally his employer.
According to Swedish newspaper reports, there are insufficient legal grounds for Mr Eriksson to bring charges of slander. Furthermore, no disciplinary action is being taken against Mr Palmér by the Migration Board since the incident occurred more than 24 months ago – at 28 months since the start of this case, it is now too late to implement such a procedure.
The conclusion of the case against the Swedish Board of Migration comes hard on the heels of other events widely seen both here in Sweden and abroad as part of a concerted Swedish attack on every aspect of Israel’s legitimacy. Perhaps foremost among these incidents in the past year is the debacle of the Sweden-Israel Davis Cup tennis match in Malmö, when attempts were made to prevent the Jewish contestants from playing. When that failed, a ban on spectators was imposed, and finally violent riots took place in the streets of Sweden’s third-largest city.
Other remarkable incidents making the international headlines include Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet’s unsubstantiated allegations of systematic Israeli organ theft from Arabs (a claim later withdrawn and refuted); Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt’s pressure on the EU to acknowledge the partitioning of Jerusalem and his insistence that it be recognized as the capital of a future Palestinian state, while signally failing to recognize any part of it as the capital of the already existing Jewish state; and the decision a couple of years ago not to prosecute in a case in which the imam of the Grand Mosque of Stockholm called for Jews to be killed as a result of the Middle East conflict. This was passed off as “part of the expected discourse on the subject of the Middle East”. Sweden otherwise has and imposes extremely strict anti-hate laws to protect its other minorities. Jews are an officially recognized minority in Sweden and Yiddish is granted the status of recognized minority language.
Jews and Zionists in Sweden now routinely conceal their affiliations in a climate that shows increasingly open – and official – animosity to Israel and Sweden’s Jewish minority.
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In a landmark victory for democracy, human rights, freedom of speech and sound common sense, the Swedish Board of Migration has turned tail and decided to reinstate sacked employee Mr Lennart Eriksson.
This after a senior officer at the Board of Migration, Mr Eugène Palmér, launched his own state-financed anti-Israel campaign abusing his position of power as Mr Eriksson’s employer. The failed campaign has cost the already hard-hit Swedish taxpayer enormous sums of money in compensation and legal costs.
28 months ago, Mr Eriksson was summoned to his then head of department, Mr Eugène Palmér, who summarily informed him that as Eriksson had used his own private computer at home to write in his own blog that Israel was a democracy, he was no longer considered suitable as head of an asylum assessment unit at the Migration Board. Mr Palmér further informed him that it had come to his notice that Eriksson voted Conservative and that this was an “unorthodox” choice for an employee of the Board of Migration. The Conservative Party is the largest political party in the ruling Swedish government coalition.
Lennart Eriksson was removed from his position as head of the asylum assessment unit so he took his case to court. A verdict in county court ruled that the Migration Board had acted unlawfully, whereupon the Board used a technical loophole in Swedish legislation – and Swedish taxpayers’ money – to buy out Mr Eriksson from his position. Mr Eriksson has no legal right to contest this move and was accordingly forced to accept the financial settlement in lieu of his job and future professional and financial prospects.
However, he again took his case to County Court. The Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman, in a verdict in September 2009, ruled that the Board’s actions had contravened Mr Eriksson’s civil and human rights. Eriksson’s lawyer, Mr Allan Stutzinsky, argued among other things that the Migration Board had used public funds to purchase Mr Eriksson’s democratic rights, an act that he contested was illegal according to the Swedish constitution. The Swedish constitution protects the right of every citizen to freedom of expression and opinion, and using money to buy someone out of his job on account of the opinions he expresses in his private life contravenes these fundamental rights.
In uncharacteristically forthright criticism of the Migration Board’s heavy-handed trampling of those rights, the Parliamentary Ombudsman advised the parties to come to an agreement in keeping with the law of the land.
Accordingly, Lennart Eriksson has been fully reinstated, he has been granted additional compensation, and all legal costs for both parties are to be borne by the Swedish Board of Migration. In other words, the Swedish taxpayer is funding the failed anti-Israel adventure of Swedish government employee Mr Eugène Palmér.
There is now considerable domestic criticism of the high cost to the taxpayer of the Migration Board’s attempt to regulate Swedish citizens’ voting patterns through the use of public funds.
Mr Eugène Palmér, who instigated the scandal by sacking Lennart Eriksson on account of his privately held political views, has been removed from his operational post. He still receives full pay courtesy of the Swedish taxpayer but his salary is no longer linked to any specific assignment or operational requirement. At Swedish taxpayers’ expense, he has been given what is euphemistically known as a “sideways promotion”. He is being kept out of the public eye since it is felt he will be less able to do public-relations damage to the Swedish Board of Migration, which is still formally his employer.
According to Swedish newspaper reports, there are insufficient legal grounds for Mr Eriksson to bring charges of slander. Furthermore, no disciplinary action is being taken against Mr Palmér by the Migration Board since the incident occurred more than 24 months ago – at 28 months since the start of this case, it is now too late to implement such a procedure.
The conclusion of the case against the Swedish Board of Migration comes hard on the heels of other events widely seen both here in Sweden and abroad as part of a concerted Swedish attack on every aspect of Israel’s legitimacy. Perhaps foremost among these incidents in the past year is the debacle of the Sweden-Israel Davis Cup tennis match in Malmö, when attempts were made to prevent the Jewish contestants from playing. When that failed, a ban on spectators was imposed, and finally violent riots took place in the streets of Sweden’s third-largest city.
Other remarkable incidents making the international headlines include Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet’s unsubstantiated allegations of systematic Israeli organ theft from Arabs (a claim later withdrawn and refuted); Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt’s pressure on the EU to acknowledge the partitioning of Jerusalem and his insistence that it be recognized as the capital of a future Palestinian state, while signally failing to recognize any part of it as the capital of the already existing Jewish state; and the decision a couple of years ago not to prosecute in a case in which the imam of the Grand Mosque of Stockholm called for Jews to be killed as a result of the Middle East conflict. This was passed off as “part of the expected discourse on the subject of the Middle East”. Sweden otherwise has and imposes extremely strict anti-hate laws to protect its other minorities. Jews are an officially recognized minority in Sweden and Yiddish is granted the status of recognized minority language.
Jews and Zionists in Sweden now routinely conceal their affiliations in a climate that shows increasingly open – and official – animosity to Israel and Sweden’s Jewish minority.
Links:
Rondellen
Rogntudjuu
TundraTabloids
TundraTabloids
EuropeNews
Ilya Meyer
Ilya Meyer
Sapere Aude
Sapere Aude
Haaretz
Atlas Shrugs
Westminster Journal
Gates of Vienna
Vlad Tepes
Dutch Faith Freedom
SII Info
The Local
The Local
The Local
Etiketter: anti-Israel, English, Eugène Palmér, Lennart Eriksson, Swedish Board of Migration
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