{"id":182612,"date":"2026-11-13T13:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=182612"},"modified":"2026-11-13T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:48:45","slug":"stefan-holm-atalas-for-misshandel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/stefan-holm-is-charged-with-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Holm is being charged with assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Stefan Holm is being charged with assault following an altercation with media personality Emil Persson at the Book Fair. The incident stems from an eight-year-old TV segment about Holm and his then 14-year-old son. Now the court must decide whether the Olympic champion is guilty of assault.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sports Personality <strong>Stefan Holm<\/strong> be charged with simple assault following the confrontation with <strong>Emil Persson<\/strong> at the Gothenburg Book Fair on September 26. According to the prosecutor, Holm grabbed Persson by the throat, shoved him, and pushed him up against a pillar. The incident was captured on surveillance video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An eight-year-old TV joke is behind the conflict<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The background is a segment from Filip and Fredrik\u2019s \u201dBreaking News\u201d in 2018. In it, Persson expressed the prejudice that Patrik Sj\u00f6berg wanted to murder Holm. The question was repeated to Holm\u2019s son Melwin, who was 14 at the time. Sj\u00f6berg rejected both claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a police interview, Holm explains that he had long felt bad about the segment and that he wanted to take a stand against Persson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2013 I\u2019ve been carrying this around for eight years and feeling really awful for eight years. I guess I just wanted to stand up to him and stand up for myself and my son. I don\u2019t think his behavior toward us has been okay.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The defense is challenging the indictment<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holm admits that he pulled on Persson's shirt but disputes the prosecutor's account of the incident. The defense attorney <strong>David Bardavid<\/strong> believes that the case should have been resolved with a summary penalty order for harassment or minor assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Prosecutor <strong>Johanna Hellman<\/strong> refers to surveillance footage, photographs, and witness statements. Persson states that he was put in a chokehold and sustained injuries. Holm has apologized and stated that he has sought help for his behavior. A trial date has not yet been set.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Holm is being charged following the altercation with Emil Persson. At the root of the conflict is an eight-year-old TV prank involving the Olympic champion and his son.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,1523,205],"tags":[6847],"class_list":["post-182612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-inrikes","category-liten","category-nyheter","tag-stefan-holm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}