Swedish Police Admit to Concealing Mass Sexual Assaults by Migrants for Political Reasons

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Swedish Police Admit to Concealing Mass Sexual Assaults by Migrants for Political Reasons
Zachary Stieber
1/11/2016
Updated:
1/11/2016

Gangs of young men harassed girls at a youth festival in Stockholm, but police covered it up because many of the boys were migrants.

Now an investigation is underway to find out why the concealment happened.

Police said after the We are Sthlm festival that there were “relatively few crimes” and only a few people had been taken into custody.

But internal communication obtained by Dagens Nyheter showed a completely different picture, with police identifying gangs of boys going around and molesting girls.

Nineteen cases were reported to police, as well as one rape, and more than 50 suspects were identified. 

Sweden's National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson holds a press conference in Salen, Sweden, Monday Jan. 11, 2016. Swedish police faced allegations of a cover-up Monday for failing to inform the public of widespread sexual assaults against teenage girls at a music festival last summer. (Henrik Montgomery/TT via AP)
Sweden's National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson holds a press conference in Salen, Sweden, Monday Jan. 11, 2016. Swedish police faced allegations of a cover-up Monday for failing to inform the public of widespread sexual assaults against teenage girls at a music festival last summer. (Henrik Montgomery/TT via AP)