Daniel Wretström

Daniel Wretström (15 October 1983 - 9 December 2000) was a Swedish ultra-nationalist murdered in Salem, Sweden. He played drums in a white power rock band called Vit Legion (White Legion).[1]

Wretström lived with his mother, Birgitta, and sister, Sara. According to Birgitta, Wretström had been diagnosed as suffering from ADHD. She described him as a "searcher", who attended a Pentecostal church.[2] Following a conflict at a party in Salem where Wretström slapped a girl[3] he was at a bus station close to a local youth center.[1] It is alleged that, after talk about a racist assaulting a girl, a group of youths followed him to the bus station. It resulted in a fight ensued in which he was assaulted by a group which the media described as being "from immigrant backgrounds".[3] After he was left in a ditch another person arrived at the scene armed with a knife and stabbed him multiple times.[3]

Wretström's murder inspired Swedish neo-Nazis, ultra-nationalists and other far-right activists to organize an annual demonstration known as the Salem March[4][5][6] Those activists consider Wretström to be a martyr to their cause. The neo-Nazi group Blood and Honour has called him "the Horst Wessel of our generation", vowing to exact revenge.[7] Their demonstrations drew a response from the Swedish anti-Fascist group Antifascistisk Aktion.[8]

Stieg Larsson, then the editor of Expo, an anti-Fascist magazine, denied that the Expo organisation had ever defended the murder of Wretström, pointing out that the Turkish-born journalist Kurdo Baksi had been one of the first to condemn the perpetrators.[9]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Expo: Mordet, marschen, martyrskapet
  2. ↑ "Min son var en sökare". Dagen (in Swedish). 13 December 2001. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 Expo: Mordet, marschen, martyrskapet
  4. ↑ The Local - Sweden deports German skinheads
  5. ↑ The White Power scene - Swedish Security Service Archived 2010-08-15 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Antisemitism And Racism Archived 2012-07-09 at Archive.is
  7. ↑ Expo: Mordet, marschen, martyrskapet, Blood and Honour wrote "Here is the Horst Wessel of our generation – the figurehead of a new movement – to whom we each owe a blood debt to unite. This morning Europe weeps for a fallen hero. Mark this day – for he shall be avenged. Though his flash has fallen – his spirit lives on."
  8. ↑ Mark Bray (29 August 2017). Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook. Melville House. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-1-61219-704-3.
  9. ↑ Stieg Larsson (29 March 2012). The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist. Quercus. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-0-85738-707-3.
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