08/20/2016 - 21:53
ABROAD. The music festival "We are Stockholm", the number of sexual assaults on girls has doubled compared to last year. This was reported by Stockholm police on request of Free Times. "And one day is yet to come," said police spokesman Mats Eriksson.
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To date, the police received no less than 40 reports of sexual assaults at the Stockholm Youth Event.
"And one day is yet to come. Last year there were 20 and now there are since this morning already 40," says press spokesman Mats Eriksson of the Stockholm police.
According to a report of the police were all sex offenders of foreign origin, particularly men from Afghanistan and Morocco last year.
Also this year the visitors of the festival almost exclusively male asylum immigrants and Swedish girls. A visitor reported our newspaper that he had almost not a single male Sweden seen at the festival.
"I was about an hour there and saw three Swedish guys".
Taharrush front of the stage
The Gothenburg journalist Joakim Lamotte was on Thursday at the festival. On Facebook , he wrote, as young girls of "large groups of men" in front of the stage surrounded and then groped.
As the journalist wants to interview a group begrapschter girl engages an employee of the festival and stopped using the guard service the interview.
"Would it have been better if the security guard had been in the audience, in order to prevent sexual assault?" He wonders.
Mats Eriksson reported the majority of victims of assaults are girls 15 to 17
"Then still there are some who were older than 18 and some were even younger than 15," he says.
Police not surprised
Police have expected the increase in offers of sexual harassment this year, not least because of the public debate about sexual assaults at festivals in spring and summer.
"These groups of men were in the last year, a new phenomenon. In those days that was a big 'news'. This year we are working hard to get the problem under control," says Eriksson.
Among other things, the police this year is suburb with more staff. In addition, there are many volunteers who mingle with the audience and try to prevent mass assaults on young girls by immigrants.
In addition to sexual harassment, the police are also increasing reports of beatings, threats and violence against employees during the festival
"And one day is yet to come. Last year there were 20 and now there are since this morning already 40," says press spokesman Mats Eriksson of the Stockholm police.
According to a report of the police were all sex offenders of foreign origin, particularly men from Afghanistan and Morocco last year.
Also this year the visitors of the festival almost exclusively male asylum immigrants and Swedish girls. A visitor reported our newspaper that he had almost not a single male Sweden seen at the festival.
"I was about an hour there and saw three Swedish guys".
Taharrush front of the stage
The Gothenburg journalist Joakim Lamotte was on Thursday at the festival. On Facebook , he wrote, as young girls of "large groups of men" in front of the stage surrounded and then groped.
As the journalist wants to interview a group begrapschter girl engages an employee of the festival and stopped using the guard service the interview.
"Would it have been better if the security guard had been in the audience, in order to prevent sexual assault?" He wonders.
Mats Eriksson reported the majority of victims of assaults are girls 15 to 17
"Then still there are some who were older than 18 and some were even younger than 15," he says.
Police not surprised
Police have expected the increase in offers of sexual harassment this year, not least because of the public debate about sexual assaults at festivals in spring and summer.
"These groups of men were in the last year, a new phenomenon. In those days that was a big 'news'. This year we are working hard to get the problem under control," says Eriksson.
Among other things, the police this year is suburb with more staff. In addition, there are many volunteers who mingle with the audience and try to prevent mass assaults on young girls by immigrants.
In addition to sexual harassment, the police are also increasing reports of beatings, threats and violence against employees during the festival
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