Joakim Lundell sues woman for defamation after social media posts

The lawsuit application has been submitted to the Nyköping district court and concerns six publications on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

Lundell believes that the woman has spread untrue and offensive information about him, including accusations of threats, abuse and data breaches. He considers the publications to constitute gross slander, alternatively slander.

In addition to that, the woman has, among other things, written on Expressen's comment field on Facebook where she accused Joakim Lundell of trying to silence critics by threatening to sue them in court.

The woman: Crazy

He demands SEK 40,000 per publication, a total of SEK 240,000, as well as compensation for legal costs.

The district court has not yet tried the case.

The woman is strongly critical of Lundell choosing to sue her.

- It's silly. We have freedom of speech in this country, she says.

Lundell's answer

Joakim Lundell has not wanted to comment further on the legal process, but states through his lawyer that "Joakim Lundell being a public figure does not mean that anyone has the right to claim in public, on repeated occasions, that he is guilty of criminal acts. Such concrete and repeated criminal allegations have nothing to do with the criticism that is of course permitted - and which a public figure always has to endure."