Lilla Saltsjöbadsavtalet
Lilla Saltsjöbadsavtalet ("The Little Saltsjöbaden Agreement") is a conspiracy theory within the far-right community about an alleged meeting which is claimed to have occurred at Saltsjöbaden on 21 March 1987, with participants from the Swedish Journalist Association (Svenska journalistklubben), regarding press coverage of people of foreign origin in Sweden. In 1993 the public service magazine Striptease stated that the agreement did not occur, as they followed up on claims made by the Swedish member of parliament Bert Karlsson (NyD) in a debate about refugees. The journalist Johan Brånstad stated that Lilla Saltsjöbadsavtalet was fabricated by the right-wing Sweden Party. The alleged agreement, and the meeting at which it should have been prepared, has not been confirmed by independent sources.
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