After DN's review: Rasmus Giertz (SD) resigns as Member of Parliament

A total of twelve former and current members of SD's youth association Ungsvenskarna say that they reacted to Rasmus Giertz's behavior towards young women. Their stories are about sex chats with a 16-year-old, harassment against an ex-girlfriend, unwanted approaches to a 17-year-old and violent elements during sex, DN revealed.

Now he is leaving his position as member of the Riksdag, reports Aftonbladet. According to a comment to the newspaper, he has had talks with the party's group leadership and has agreed that it is best that he resigns.

Matheus Enholm, the Sweden Democrats' group leader in the Riksdag, writes to Aftonbladet that "they take seriously the information that has emerged".

"In connection with the review, we have held a conversation with the member to give him the opportunity to give an account of his view of what has emerged. In this, he has, among other things, refuted large parts of the information presented, which he believes are seriously misleading and in large part directly incorrect," writes Matheus Enholm to Aftonbladet.

Rasmus Giertz himself "resolutely rejects the picture that has been painted" which he believes is "largely based on rumor-mongering and pure falsehoods."

"I also feel that DN did not present my rebuttal in a fair way, but the publication as a whole appears rather as an attempt at character assassination and goes beyond all press ethical boundaries", writes Rasmus Giertz in a comment to Aftonbladet.