The Swedish Chancellor of Justice has closed an investigation into nearly 200 publications on the Nazi website Nordfront. The investigation concerned articles and images on the site that contained anti-Semitic, homophobic, and racist content. The responsible publisher for the site, 98-year-old Vera Oredsson, who lives in Ludvika municipality, could no longer be held accountable because the articles have been removed or edited.
A constitutional amendment to the Freedom of the Press Act that came into force in 2019 gives publishers the possibility of exemption from liability for publications older than one year. If a publisher is notified by the Chancellor of Justice that a publication may constitute a crime, the publisher has two weeks to remove the publication and can thus avoid responsibility. The reported material on Nordfront is assumed to be more than a year old and has now been deleted or changed, so there is no longer reason to investigate suspected incitement against an ethnic group.