Minister’s confidence|The Minister of Economic Affairs Rydman commented on the intermediate question of the opposition parties in his e-mail message to HS.
Minister of Economic Affairs by Wille Rydman (ps) in the opinion of the opposition parties on Tuesday in the middle question false claims are repeated.
The opposition parties say that Rydman repeatedly attacked the media and women who reported on Rydman’s oppressive behavior. According to the opposition, Rydman should resign as minister.
Helsingin Sanomat sent Rydman a request for comment on the interim question. Rydman responded to a request for comment by email. In his answer, he does not take a position on his actions towards the media.
“The opposition’s interim question repeats the false claims that Helsingin Sanomat started spreading two years ago. The article published by Helsingin Sanomat on June 19, 2022 is essentially complete bullshit,” Rydman writes.
Rhythm made by Helsingin Sanomat from the article in the second year of the investigation request. The article describes how Rydman has used his political position to get close to young women and girls.
In June, both Helsingin Sanomat’s journalists and several of the women used as a source for the article received decisions not to press charges. Rydman is also not accused of anything.
According to the prosecutor, HS’s article presented information that “can be considered necessary to deal with a socially significant issue”.
“The editors have used their available means to make sure that there are no false claims in the article,” says the decision not to press charges.
Neither according to the prosecutor, no false statements or insinuations were found in the investigations concerning the women who served as sources.
Rydman refers to the passages in the decisions not to charge, which state that not all descriptions of years-old cases can be proven true or false. The prosecutor does not take a direct position on truthfulness, but rather assesses whether there is reason to suspect the allegations as false in a way that exceeds the prosecution threshold or not.
Rydman’s particularly highlighted point deals with the description of Rydman’s emotional reaction in a single situation. The accounts of Rydman and the source interviewed in HS’s article were contradictory.
“Rydman’s story that it was at most a matter of being upset is supported [henkilön] from the diary. Considering that it is about events from several years ago [henkilön] the memory of the intensity of Rydman’s emotional reaction may have changed. Therefore, we consider that it cannot be shown in the case that the information presented in this regard is false,” says the passage referred to by Rydman.
Based on the prosecutor’s decisions, no probable reasons were found in the preliminary investigations to suspect that the sources were lying. Rydman maintains his position that despite this, the claims made in the Helsingin Sanomat article are not true.
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