Both were canceled from the fair's program after Stefan Holm was reported to the police for assault.
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Stefan Holm has been reported to the police for assaulting the podcast profile Emil Persson.
The Holm couple write books together and Jessica Eriksson Holm had wanted to appear at the fair, even though her husband Stefan Holm was arrested after being reported to the police for assault by the podcast profile Emil Persson.
But Jessica Eriksson Holm states that she was informed that she was not welcome at the fair either. The couple's publisher had received that message from the fair's management, she tells Aftonbladet.
Stefan and Jessica Holm would have participated in the program points "Win or lose - that's why we love sports romance" and "Romancequiz" on Sunday, but both were cancelled.
- They canceled all the points where me and Stefan participate. The publisher decided it together with the Book Fair, without any communication with us. They haven't spoken to any of us at all, so they haven't heard our version of what happened, says Jessica Eriksson Holm to the Nya Wermlands newspaper.
The fair's management denies that Jessica Eriksson Holm would be "ported" and calls the decision "an editorial decision".
"When the conditions for the program items changed so closely, editorial decisions had to be made about how the remaining program items were to be implemented," says communications and marketing manager Martina Johansson in a statement to TT.

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