Girls in Ungsvenskarna warn each other about Rasmus Giertz (SD)

DN has previously told about Ellen, who accompanied a man to his hotel room after a night out during a conference trip with the Ungsvenskarna.

It was the Conservative Association's annual general meeting in Lund 2024. She was 21 years old and had been with the Ungsvenskarna for a year. The man was the Member of Parliament Rasmus Giertz, nine years his senior.

She says he changed when they had sex.

- He suddenly became like a replacement. He spat in my face and took very hard strangleholds. I was drunk and didn't understand what was happening. It felt like I was going to die.

Pictures from the next day show red marks on her neck, after the harsh strangulation. Ellen was told that the rumor had spread among several of the guys in the Sweden Democrats' youth association.

- He had taken pictures of my period on the sheets and sent them to his friends, and sort of talked about how it "got bloody".

A young man who attended the conference remembers the rumours. He and Ellen no longer have any contact, but he confirms her story.

- I heard jokes about Rasmus "blatting", i.e. sacrificing blood to the Asa gods. One guy showed pictures of the sheets, he says.

Did you understand the purpose of the pictures?

- I interpreted it as a kind of trophy. That it was a cool thing that they fucked so hard that it started bleeding, says the young man, who was a member of the Ungsvenskarna for several years.

He told Ellen about the pictures. Together, they arranged a meeting with Rasmus Giertz to confront him, show chat messages that DN has seen.

"Ugly," Giertz wrote afterwards.

A week after the night with the parliamentarian, Ellen went to a youth clinic.

"The patient tells us about an event a week ago that created great anxiety for her," reads the medical records. She had had sex with a guy who "strangled her so that she got marks on her neck", the midwife wrote afterwards.

The midwife asked if there had been consent. Ellen answered yes.

- I could have done more to stop it. I didn't object but just tried to remove his hand. I was just very shocked, says Ellen.

Today, she regrets that she did not report the incident to the police, but continued to have contact with the member of parliament.

When DN contacts Rasmus Giertz to ask about the data, he replies that he "doesn't intend to review previous intercourse".

- But what you describe here is not true at all. What happened then was consent between two adults, which is also a highly private matter.

He denies that he would have taken pictures and spread them. However, he confirms that he was confronted the next day.

- I was very surprised and did not even understand how I would have had the opportunity to take such pictures. I definitely haven't.

Rasmus Giertz has shared chat messages that he believes show that the woman he had sex with wanted to stay in touch afterwards.

- It seems very strange that you would do that if you then felt that something like this would have happened.

What would she gain by going to a youth clinic and lying to a midwife about this?

- As I said, I have no idea. It is very strange to me.

Recently, DN was able to report that girls have been subjected to unwanted advances and sexual violence by boys they met in Ungsvenskarna. Through testimonies from 21 former and current members, a picture emerges of how sexist jargon, macho ideals and us-versus-them mentality pushed boundaries.

The young Swedes come from widely different parts of the country. Their stories take place at different times, in different places and in different contexts.

They tell about several different men. But Rasmus Giertz's name comes up again and again.

A total of twelve former and current young Swedes say that they reacted to the MP's behavior towards young women.

Rasmus Giertz was the local contact person for the Ungsvenskarna for a long time. Today he is district chairman for SD Dalarna. He was elected as a substitute in the Riksdag in 2022, became a serving member in 2023 and today sits as a deputy in several important committees.

Shortly after he was elected to the Riksdag, Giertz ended up in a high-profile pub brawl. During a night out in Borlänge, he was caught on film shouting "pussy" and pushing a male pub guest, Expressen revealed. That same evening, he got into a fight with several people and was reported for assault, whereupon Giertz made a counter-report that he himself had been assaulted. The investigation into the fight was dropped due to lack of evidence.

Rasmus Giertz received a warning from the party board, but stayed.

He has previously been convicted of assault, after he punched a close relative in the stomach as a 19-year-old. The verdict in the district court was handed down in 2014 and the punishment was 50 hours of community service.

Before the 2018 election, he received a lot of attention for a statement that men who come to Sweden and rape should be "prosecuted, punished and then deported".

For Swedish men who rape, he had another solution:

- Stretch yourself, get a gym card and stop raping women, said Giertz.

The statement was caught on film. Afterwards he called it a "stupid wording".

A former member of Ungsvenskarna says that she got to know Rasmus Giertz when she joined the association in the fall of 2020, as a 16-year-old. He was 26 years old and had a position both in Ungsvenskarna and in SD. They started chatting, and began a flirtation, she remembers.

Although they also met physically, the contact mostly took place online.

- My father was so angry.

DN has spoken to the father, who remembers and confirms:

- It was a damn age difference. Plus, of course, people thought that he took advantage of his position against a young person who wanted to move up, says the father.

The young woman tells, without knowing Ellen's history, how similar elements of violence often occurred when she sex-chatted with Rasmus Giertz.

- I was so young. It was strange and unpleasant for someone to write to you like that. That I would be strangled and spanked, says the girl, who left the union shortly after the relationship ended.

In addition to the father, a then close friend confirms the relationship with the SD politician.

Rasmus Giertz himself says that he does not "recognize it at all".

- I have never ever expressed myself in such a way as you describe. So, first of all, it's not true, and then I'm genuinely saddened to hear that someone is spreading such rumors about me.

When DN begins to examine the culture within the Ungsvenskarna, several mention the Riksdagman's name without us asking about him.

- He harassed my friend for several years after they broke up, says a former member.

Even in that case, the girlfriend in question was as young as 16 when they got together. He was 24 years old, contact person for Ungsvenskarna in Dalarna and district chairman of the parent party.

When they broke up after a year, in the summer of 2020, Rasmus Giertz and a friend started calling her from a hidden number, according to a police report obtained by DN. A preliminary investigation into molestation was launched.

Three former young Swedes whom we contacted independently of each other talk about the harassment. Giertz and his friend allegedly used a voice scrambler so that it would not be clear who they were.

The ex-girlfriend understood that it was him, because Rasmus Giertz used to use the same voice distorter to "bus call" people when they were together, says her friend.

The calls often came in the evening, sometimes late at night.

- They could call several times a day, sometimes several times in an hour, says the friend.

- He said she was a whore and that she deserved to be raped, says another girl to whom the ex-girlfriend confided.

The harassment continued for two years after they ended. The preliminary investigation was closed in the spring of 2022, but in connection with that the talks were scaled down.

Giertz says he did not know about the report, that he was never notified of the suspicion, nor was he contacted by the police.

- Anyone can report anyone for anything. The fact that the preliminary investigation was dropped so quickly suggests that there was no substance to it.

He says he hasn't called his ex-girlfriend once since they broke up and that the relationship ended in a "less good way."

A year after the police report, Giertz again attracted attention for his behavior.

A former contact person in Ungsvenskarna tells about when she brought a new, younger member to a spring conference in Stockholm in 2023. They were supposed to stay in the same hotel room, but the 16-year-old never came to bed. The following morning, she told me that she had slept with Rasmus Giertz.

- We came from a small district and she had no role or anything like that. She was in the first year of high school, he was about twice as old and sat in the Riksdag. I checked with her to make sure he didn't do anything against her wishes, but regardless, it felt very inappropriate for a member of parliament to have dinner with a 16-year-old and then have sex, says the former contact person, who had wanted to be named but whom DN anonymizes to protect the young girl.

The 16-year-old has now turned 19. Today, she herself describes the situation as "sick".

- We were at a party together in a hotel room. It ended with the two of us going to his parliament apartment, she says and continues:

- I guess I was a bit hesitant to have sex - "yes, but then you might as well leave", was his attitude then. He was kind of rude and everything was on his terms.

She says she was "very affected by alcohol".

- So I remember this a bit half-blurred to be honest, but as I remember it, I never felt unsafe, just uncomfortable. There was no coercion or anything.

What do you think about this today?

- That it is terrible that he was so much older and even found me attractive. I wasn't even allowed to go to the pub. I wasn't even allowed to buy a box of snuff if I wanted to.

Even a young Swedish guy says, independently of the testimony of the others, that during breakfast the next day he heard from several people that the member of parliament had slept with the 16-year-old. He remembers the incident because he reacted strongly when he later realized how young she was.

But Rasmus Giertz denies that he had any sexual relations with young girls in the Ungsvenskarna since he became a Member of Parliament.

- I do not recognize the incident you describe and refute the claim that I would have pressured someone into sex. Based on the information you presented, I cannot identify the alleged incident or confirm your description of it, he says.

At the spring conference the following year, in 2024, the member of parliament was again at an after-party with younger young Swedes, according to a then 17-year-old girl.

- He knocked on the door to our hotel room. My girlfriend was there, otherwise I would never have let him in. Rasmus was very into me and wanted to lie down. I just jerked his hands away. Finally he tried to pull my shirt off.

The 17-year-old had enough and spoke out.

- He started crying and said I was so mean. That he was a Member of Parliament and that he would make sure that I never, ever got a position in the party. He would tell everyone that I was a nasty bitch, says the girl, who is still a member of Ungsvenskarna.

The girlfriend was in the room with another guy, but confirms that Ramsus Giertz came there, and made the approach. Afterwards, she heard from the 17-year-old about what else allegedly happened.

Rasmus Giertz rejects the claim.

- No, no, I would never put such words in my mouth. Bitch is a word I never use.

DN has taken part in a picture from the occasion, where the two girls and the Riksdag man lie clothed in a bed.

Rasmus Giertz says he does not recognize the incident.

- Well, there are quite a few hotel room parties, so me and a colleague or friend may have been to a hotel room party, but based on what you describe and claim that I have done, I don't recognize it at all.

Only when he sees the picture from the hotel room does he confirm that he was there.

- However, it is not true at all that I would have been close or acted in the way you described. These are accusations that I firmly deny. Sitting together in a bed during a hotel room party is hardly remarkable in itself.

He refers to the other guy who was in the room, a friend who has since been kicked out of the party. The friend was not there the whole time and cannot specify what year the party took place, but he says that if Rasmus Giertz had behaved inappropriately, he would have remembered it.

Rasmus Giertz emphasizes that he has been involved in the party and the youth association "for many years."

- During that time, of course, I also had a private life, dated and had relationships. There have definitely been times where jealousy and drama may have arisen, but what you describe is an image that I strongly reject.

Several of the young girls in Ungsvenskarna describe it as learning to beware of the Riksdagman.

- I have never had these accusations made to me before. It's not an image I recognize myself in and I don't think it's an image that most people have. I am of course saddened to hear that it is someone who claims such things.

During the interview with Rasmus Giertz, he consistently questions the credibility of the information, that it is not possible to know that all those who confirmed the stories were not talking to each other.

We have talked to old friends, relatives and others who were there, read journals, chat messages and pictures. Why would they make such an advanced plot?

- Yes, but it's their relatives and their friends, so it's probably only their stories that they've heard then too.

You mean everyone lies?

- I don't know who you have spoken to and I don't know what these events are.

The young women and men that DN spoke to are upset that Rasmus Giertz is allowed to represent the party.

- I have a lot of great memories from Ungsvenskarna and still vote for SD, so this makes me very disappointed, says one of them.

Ellen is actually called something else.