Exocet
January 11th, 2016, 04:09 PM
Enjoy """"""""""""refugees""""""""""" Sweden.
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UPDATED: Swedish police have launched an internal investigation after they were accused of withholding information about a string of sex assaults at Europe's largest youth festival.
There were 38 reports of rape and sexual assault filed after the We Are Sthlm festival, which uses the postal abbreviation for Stockholm, in 2014 and 2015, according to police.
Officers released the figures after the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper reported it had seen a memo from last summer, warning police ahead of the event that there was a known "problem with young men who rub themselves against young girls" at the festival.
Police would not say how many men had been linked to the alleged assaults, but DN reported that as many as 50 Afghan refugees who had come to Sweden without their parents were suspected to be involved.
Officers had, however, avoided informing the public that they had made this connection, DN said.
Teenagers who said they had been touched inappropriately at the festival detailed their experiences to the paper, with one describing the events as "terrible".
"As soon as you came out in the crowd they began to grope," said the 15-year-old girl.
Documents sent by police to the AFP news agency later in the day showed allegations of 17 sexual assaults and one rape during the 2014 music festival, and 19 sexual assaults and one rape in 2015.
The free festival is put on every year for 12 to 17-year-olds and is held in various locations in the city centre, including Kungsträdgården, a large park close to Stockholm's Royal Palace. The programme in 2015 boasted a number of international dance companies and circuses alongside Swedish artists including Zara Larsson, who headlined the event.
Police earlier said last summer that there had been "relatively few crimes and people taken into custody considering the number of participants" in the festival, however on Monday they admitted that the full picture had not been given.
"We should certainly have written and told people about this, no doubt. Why it did not happen I do not know," Varg Gyllander, a press spokesperson, told DN.
He said that police would reinvestigate exactly what happened and why the general public was not fully informed at the time.
Sweden's National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson also tweeted that he would look into the apparent media blackout.
http://www.thelocal.se/20160111/police-reinvestigate-sex-crimes-at-teen-festival
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UPDATED: Swedish police have launched an internal investigation after they were accused of withholding information about a string of sex assaults at Europe's largest youth festival.
There were 38 reports of rape and sexual assault filed after the We Are Sthlm festival, which uses the postal abbreviation for Stockholm, in 2014 and 2015, according to police.
Officers released the figures after the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper reported it had seen a memo from last summer, warning police ahead of the event that there was a known "problem with young men who rub themselves against young girls" at the festival.
Police would not say how many men had been linked to the alleged assaults, but DN reported that as many as 50 Afghan refugees who had come to Sweden without their parents were suspected to be involved.
Officers had, however, avoided informing the public that they had made this connection, DN said.
Teenagers who said they had been touched inappropriately at the festival detailed their experiences to the paper, with one describing the events as "terrible".
"As soon as you came out in the crowd they began to grope," said the 15-year-old girl.
Documents sent by police to the AFP news agency later in the day showed allegations of 17 sexual assaults and one rape during the 2014 music festival, and 19 sexual assaults and one rape in 2015.
The free festival is put on every year for 12 to 17-year-olds and is held in various locations in the city centre, including Kungsträdgården, a large park close to Stockholm's Royal Palace. The programme in 2015 boasted a number of international dance companies and circuses alongside Swedish artists including Zara Larsson, who headlined the event.
Police earlier said last summer that there had been "relatively few crimes and people taken into custody considering the number of participants" in the festival, however on Monday they admitted that the full picture had not been given.
"We should certainly have written and told people about this, no doubt. Why it did not happen I do not know," Varg Gyllander, a press spokesperson, told DN.
He said that police would reinvestigate exactly what happened and why the general public was not fully informed at the time.
Sweden's National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson also tweeted that he would look into the apparent media blackout.
http://www.thelocal.se/20160111/police-reinvestigate-sex-crimes-at-teen-festival