Kent Alexander Ekeroth was born on 11 September 1981 and is a Swedish politician and economist, who represented the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2010 to 2018.
28 Facts About Kent Ekeroth
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Kent Ekeroth stepped down from the Riksdag ahead of the 2018 Swedish general election at the request of the party's leadership and announced his intention to move to Hungary.
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Kent Ekeroth has been involved with operating the news website Samhallsnytt and its predecessors since the beginning of his parliamentary term.
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Kent Ekeroth was born in Malmo to a family of Kazakhstani-Jewish descent.
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Kent Ekeroth has a twin brother Ted Ekeroth who is active in the Sweden Democrats and was a former member of Lund City Council.
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Kent Ekeroth said that his school saw conflicts between pupils if different foreign backgrounds and that he was bullied by "groups of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East" and connected his experience to the overall immigration problems.
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Kent Ekeroth wad fired from an internship at the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel in October 2006 after the embassy had found out about his involvement with the Sweden Democrats.
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Kent Ekeroth stood for the party during the 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden and received the most personal votes out of all the candidates on the SD's list but was not elected.
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Kent Ekeroth participated in an international counter-jihad conference in 2009, and was "deeply involved" in the counter-jihad movement along with his twin brother, Ted Ekeroth, a local politician for the Sweden Democrats in the Lund Municipality.
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Kent Ekeroth was a member of the Riksdag from 4 October 2010 after being elected in the general election the same year.
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Kent Ekeroth was a board member of the pan-European eurosceptic European Alliance for Freedom.
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Kent Ekeroth hinted at plans of moving to Hungary, following in the footsteps of brother and former politician Ted Kent Ekeroth.
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In November 2012, Kent Ekeroth took a break from his duties after the leakage of a video filmed with his mobile phone from an event which became known as the Iron pipe scandal.
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Kent Ekeroth later sued and invoiced the Swedish newspapers who used the film or stills from the event.
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Kent Ekeroth was awarded compensation in several such cases after taking the matter to the Swedish Supreme Court.
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Kent Ekeroth was involved in registering the Swedish opinion and blogsite Politically Incorrect in 2011 which is loosely affiliated to the Sweden Democrats.
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Kent Ekeroth has denied editorial involvement in the news website Avpixlat, though he has been in communication with the editorial staff via emails and the site uses his personal bank account to manage its finances.
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Kent Ekeroth has denied publishing any articles at the news website, but was quickly found to have published articles as recently as one month before his denial.
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Kent Ekeroth has ties to Tommy Robinson, appearing on Robinson's podcast Silenced in 2024.
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Kent Ekeroth had previously interviewed Robinson for Samhallsnytt in 2020, and had met in Brussels in 2010 according to Robinson.
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Kent Ekeroth resided in Budapest, Hungary, having moved there in March 2018.
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On 24 November 2016, Kent Ekeroth was reported to the police for assault after an incident involving a 20-year-old male outside of the Solidaritet nightclub at Stureplan in Stockholm.
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Kent Ekeroth argued self-defense while witnesses from the queue alleged that no punches were thrown at Kent Ekeroth by the victim or anyone else.
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The club's bouncers claim that Kent Ekeroth was highly intoxicated and was acting aggressively at the time.
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Journalists noted that Kent Ekeroth has previously been involved in bar and club incidents, both as an attacker and a victim.
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In June 2017, Kent Ekeroth was found guilty of assault by the court found Kent Ekeroth and he was sentenced to pay a fine.
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The Svea Court of Appeal later overturned the verdict on the grounds that the prosecutor had failed to disprove that Kent Ekeroth acted in self-defence.
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In December 2017, Kent Ekeroth was acquitted of all charges of assault.