
Migrants pour into Sweden, which has one of the most liberal immigration policies in the E.U.
WASHINGTON – A new report documents that sexual assault at Swedish music festivals increased by as much as 1,000 percent in 2016, with the majority perpetrated by men of "foreign origin."
So far, the non-profit organization The Night Shift has documented more than 100 cases of sexual molestation at amusement parks and festivals alone, and the numbers continue to rise.
Advertisement - story continues below
Security manager Fredrik Gemzell works at the Grona Lund amusement park in Stockholm, the site of at least four attacks this year.
"All cases are reported to the police. It is young teenage girls who have been victims," Gemzell said. "We have our own security center, where visitors can call. In addition, we have a security team which patrols the park. ... It's an incredible, totally unacceptable behavior."
TRENDING: Ivanka Trump made a quiet visit to Maui after the wildfires
At a music festival called We are Sthlm, sex attacks more than doubled from 2015 to 2016. A police report denotes that all the attackers were foreign, with Afghani and Moroccan attackers particularly numerous.
Advertisement - story continues below
The 2016 festival saw 50 sexual assault incidents, with the majority of the victims being young girls. The girls were kissed and "groped on the chest and buttocks," according to Breitbart News.
The youngest was 12 years old.
Alarmingly, Breitbart London reported that festival organizers in Sweden knew the sex attacks were being committed but thought it would be "irresponsible" to speak out about the foreign perpetrators.
The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter claimed that Stockholm police also knew about the assaults but consciously avoided reporting them. Police feared the assaults would help right-wing politicians.
The problem has become so bad in Sweden that police have begun to equip women with "don't touch me" wristbands at festivals and similar events.
Advertisement - story continues below
"By wearing these wristbands," Sweden’s national police chief Dan Eliasson said, "young women will be able to make a stand."
According to official data from the Swedish government, sexual assaults have risen by 70 percent nationwide in the last two years. Approximately 15 percent of women now say they will not go out alone at night due to fears of sexual assault.
WND reported a year ago there were five reported rapes and nearly 40 instances of groping at two music festivals over a single weekend.
Sweden had taken in more than 162,000 migrants from the Middle East and Africa in the year leading up to that weekend. It was the largest influx of any European nation on a per capita basis. Most have come from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria.
Advertisement - story continues below
The rash of sexual assaults took place at Putte I Parken, a free festival in Karlstad, according to the London Express.
"Foreign young men" were blamed by police for the attacks at one of the festivals, and at least two unaccompanied migrant youths were arrested.