Here, the member of parliament Rasmus Giertz, SD, physically attacks a man – while shouting “pussy” – at a nightclub in Borlänge.

When the SD leader is then questioned by the police, he lies about the incident.

Expressen can now publish the cellphone footage from the night out.

– It is possible that he and I were joking with each other, says Rasmus Giertz about the man he attacked.

In March, SD leader Daniel Lönn, who was then a substitute in the Riksdag, resigned from his political duties. The resignation came less than an hour after Expressen confronted him and the party with two films: one showing Lönn being escorted out of a nightclub by security guards and another in which he talked about being in the police drunkenness cell:

– Damn whores of security guards throwing me in the police car so I can sit in the drunken cell, that was one of the worst things I’ve done in my entire life. Oh my god, that was really bad, said Lönn. 

The article in brief

• Member of Parliament Rasmus Giertz, SD, has previously defended his party colleague Daniel Lönn – who was kicked out of the party this spring after Expressen revealed drunken videos of him.

• Expressen can now publish mobile videos from the Lips nightclub in Borlänge from December 2022 showing Giertz physically attacking a man at the wardrobe while screaming “pussy”.

• When Giertz is then asked about the incident in a police interview, he denies what is seen in the films.

• In police questioning, Giertz also says that he was “not under the influence at all,” but the footage shows that he has difficulty focusing his eyes and that an entrance attendant leads him towards the exit.

One person who has long expressed support for Lönn, despite his repeated drunkenness scandals, is Rasmus Giertz. He is the district chairman of the SD in Dalarna and after the election in the fall of 2022 he became a member of parliament.

Defended Lönn

Among other things, he spoke about when Daniel Lönn was taken into custody under the Act on the Care of Drunk Persons, LOB, in December 2022:

– During that incident, I did not feel that Daniel was affected at all, Giertz told Falu-Kuriren.

Giertz was with Lönn that night at the Lips nightclub in central Borlänge. The evening was quickly rewritten because Giertz got into a fight on the street outside the club. The member of parliament was reported for assault that same night – and a few days later he filed a counter-report that he had been assaulted.

In the investigation – which was closed after four months because words contradicted words and there was a lack of supporting evidence, as the prosecutor justified in the closure decisions – the police tried to find out what had preceded the fight out on the street.

Expressen has taken note of the closed preliminary investigation. It states that witnesses said that other guests at the nightclub had filmed Rasmus Giertz and his friends. The SD leader claimed in police questioning that the filming group had called them “SD pussies” and “SD whores”, but there are no independent witnesses or other evidence to support that claim in the police investigation.

“SD pussies””SD-horor”

“Very provocative and aggressive”

The other guests explained the choice to film Giertz by saying that the SD leader and his friends had previously behaved “very provocatively and aggressively” in the pub. The recording mobile phone was a way to persuade the MP to stop his behavior.

“very provocative and aggressive”

Expressen has obtained cellphone footage from inside the nightclub. One of them shows Rasmus Giertz walking quickly towards a man standing in the wardrobe. The MP pushes the man, who is said to have been in Giertz’s company, while shouting “pussy”.

In police interrogation, Rasmus Giertz is then asked questions about the incident:

POLICE: Is there anything going on between you and anyone in your party when you’re downstairs there?

GIERTZ: – What do you mean then?

POLICE: Yes, that there’s something, that there’s something between you? Whatever it is, that you get into something or say things to each other or that there’s some kind of behavior?

GIERTZ: – Yes, I don’t really understand…

POLICE: No, what if something happens between you and your group down there?

GIERTZ: – Do you mean that my company and I had a fight with each other?

POLICE: Well, or that something happens or that things are said to each other or that it is somehow physical?

GIERTZ: – No, it wasn’t anything physical at all…

POLICE: No.

GIERTZ: – … indoors then.

Giertz in questioning: “I’m not a big drinker”

In police interrogation, Giertz is also asked about how much he had drunk that evening:

GIERTZ: – I’m not a big drinker, so I didn’t have time to drink very much before this happened.

POLICE: No, if you were to give a guess as to how much you’ll have time to drink before this is finished?

GIERTZ: – Eh, well… eh…. what could it be? No, I wasn’t under the influence at all, I didn’t feel, well, under the influence of alcohol at all.

POLICE: No, I understand.

GIERTZ: – But yeah, maybe one and a half, one and a half beers maybe.

POLICE: Okay, all in the evening?

GIERTZ: – Mm.

Another cellphone video from the evening shows Rasmus Giertz having difficulty focusing his eyes and being led to the exit by an usher. After the MP was turned away from the nightclub, a fight broke out in the street and party colleague Daniel Lönn was taken into custody and taken to the police drunkenness cell.

Expressen meets Rasmus Giertz after a vote in parliament. When he sees the footage from the nightclub, he first says that the man he pushed first attacked him:

– This was a situation where there were several people who were unknown to me, who then attacked me and who then tried to prevent me from leaving the premises because he then tried to block the exit.

Changes his version of the incident at the nightclub

When Expressen then informs him that the person he is pushing is an acquaintance of his, he changes his story completely:

– It was possible that he and I, who are very close friends, were joking with each other. I don’t know. As I said, it was several years ago and I don’t remember the whole sequence of events.

Looking at how it looks and how you act, it doesn’t seem like you’re joking. You look really angry.

– I think both he and I are standing there smiling. As I said, he is a friend of mine and it is possible that we were joking with each other.

You were a member of parliament then too. Should a member of parliament behave like this?

– I don’t think that particular word is something I usually use and it’s clearly inappropriate. It seems like it was probably a situation where he and I were joking with each other.

In police interrogation you are asked questions about this particular incident that we see on film and then you deny what we can all see happening there. Why don’t you tell the truth in police interrogation?

– I have spoken the truth.

What you say in police interrogation is not true.

– So it wasn’t anything physical that we tried to get at each other, physically in any way. It’s possible that he and I were joking with each other in some way, and friends can do that.

Giertz leaves the interview

When Expressen then asks Rasmus Giertz questions about how drunk he was at the time, he chooses to leave the interview:

– I wasn’t drunk at all.

You couldn’t focus your eyes and the gatekeeper led you out. How much had you really drunk? Did you lie about it in police questioning as well?

– Absolutely not.

Rasmus Giertz’s acquaintance, whom the SD top pushes and calls “pussy”, tells Expressen:

– Now I haven’t seen this movie and it’s in a nightclub environment so it might be loud in general. I can only go by what I remember and I don’t remember us having any kind of argument.

Why is he yelling “pussy” at you?

– I actually don’t know what it could be about, he says, adding that he and Giertz are friends.

The acquaintance was also questioned by the police about the incident at the wardrobe and, just like Rasmus Giertz, he denied what is seen in the film:

– It was a stressful situation. Of course, you can forget things and miss things, he says about the interrogation, but adds that he does not believe he lied to the police.

Expressen has contacted the Sweden Democrats.