Malmö's municipal council shared conspiracy theories

From eleventh place on the ballot, Halimo Nuur made it to the Malmö city council with a successful personal election campaign that was enough for one of V's three mandates in the municipality. The party presents her as "municipal councilor with responsibility for functional support, democracy and human rights".

However, Expressen's review shows that she has previously shared several Instagram posts that do not quite match the area of ​​responsibility. Among them should be, for example, a post that claims that the world is ruled by "satanic pedophiles", a conspiracy theory that is also prominent in the extreme right.

Another idea she brought forward is that the Western world lacks both democracy and civilization, according to Expressen, and this post also makes connections to the convicted sex offender billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. "It is a barbaric, uncivilized, backward and morally decayed world," says Libya's ex-dictator Muammar Gaddafi in the clip.

- It is a genre of conspiracy theories, most prevalent on the right, about pedophiles ruling the world. It sounds as if its purpose is to destabilize Western democracy. That you can't trust Western democracy and use a person like Muammar Gaddafi to express that, says Christer Mattsson, director of the Segerstedt Institute at the University of Gothenburg, to Expressen.

In the context of Hamas' large-scale attack on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, Nuur unreservedly condemned crimes against civilians, but took the opportunity to blame Israel for it. "Unfortunately, man can only endure to a certain limit before he is forced to act as we can see today in Israel," she wrote at the time.

- These are classic conspiracy theories where you either believe that Jews or a group of Jews are destroying the world in principle, says Jewish Central Council chairman Aron Verständig to Expressen.

In a written response to the newspaper, Halimo Nuur states that during a period last winter she was particularly involved in the Epstein reporting and that she may have then republished things without thinking. "I have therefore deleted several entries on my Instagram account," she writes.