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(1,339 posts)cops and the newspapers tried to cover it up.
Swedish police accused of covering up sex attacks by refugees at music festival
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/11/swedish-police-accused-cover-up-sex-attacks-refugees-festival
Swedens prime minister has condemned a double betrayal of women after allegations that police covered up sexual harassment by recent immigrants at a music festival in Stockholm. Meanwhile, reports have emerged of attacks on women in Malmö on New Years Eve.
Groups of refugees molested concertgoers at We Are Stockholm, Europes largest youth festival, in the summer of 2014, according to internal police memos obtained by Dagens Nyheter, a daily newspaper. These are so-called refugee youths, specifically from Afghanistan. Several of the gang were arrested for sexual molestation, one police memo said.
Yet the official police report on the five-day festival attended by 170,000 young people aged mainly 13-19 made no mention of sexual harassment or assaults. The prime minister, Stefan Löfven, said this amounted to a double betrayal since no one was prosecuted for the crimes and the police did not make them public.
The reports come as police in Cologne, Germany, investigate hundreds of claims of assaults on women on New Years Eve. Officials say nearly all of the suspects in the attacks were people with an immigrant background. Police and the media have been accused of deliberately under-reporting the events in order not to encourage anti-immigrant sentiment.
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Its not only Germany that covers up mass sex attacks by migrant men... Swedens record is shameful
Stockholm police were warned not to give descriptions of the perpetrators lest they were accused of being racist
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/its-not-only-germany-that-covers-up-mass-sex-attacks-by-migrant-men-swedens-record-is-shameful/
It took days for police to acknowledge the extent of the mass attacks on women celebrating New Years Eve in Cologne. The Germans were lucky; in Sweden, similar attacks have been taking place for more than a year and the authorities are still playing catch up. Only now is the truth emerging, both about the attacks and the cover-ups. Stefan Löfven, our Prime Minister, has denounced a double betrayal of women and has promised an investigation. But he ought to be asking this: what made the police and even journalists cover up the truth?
The answer can be discovered in the reaction to the Cologne attacks. Sweden prides itself on its sexual equality and has even pioneered a feminist foreign policy. When hundreds of women were reported to have been molested and abused in Cologne at the hands of an organised mob the reaction from Swedish politicians and pundits ought to have been one of outrage.
Then last week Swedens own stories began to emerge. During the We Are Sthlm music festival, large groups of young men harassed girls sexually. It began in 2014 and it also went on during last years festival. According to internal police reports the groups were so-called refugee youths primarily from Afghanistan. The youngest of the victims was 12 years old.
The police claimed that there were relatively few crimes and arrests considering the number of participants. Internal reports told a different story. The police were shocked enough by the harassment to try to come up with a strategy to handle the groups of molesters at the festival a strategy that was evidently unsuccessful. The trouble was that they were trying to deal with a problem but would not speak its name. As Peter Ågren, police chief in central Stockholm, put it: Sometimes we do not dare to say how things really are because we believe it will play into the hands of the Sweden Democrats. As we now know, police officers in Stockholm are instructed not to reveal the ethnicity or nationality of any suspects lest they be accused of racism.
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