Situation in Sweden
According to the right-leaning Gatestone Institute, Sweden has become the “rape capital of Europe” and currently is only surpassed in the world by South Africa.
According to figures published by The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, 29,000 Swedish women in 2011 reported that they had been raped.
Another study by The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention showed the number of gang rapes quadrupled between 1995 and 2006. No further studies have been undertaken since.
Since 2000, there has been only one research report conducted on immigrant crime in Sweden, in 2006, by Ann-Christine Hjelm from Karlstads University. The report showed that in 2002, 85 percent of criminals sentenced to at least two years in prison for rape in Svea Hovrätt, a court of appeals, were foreign born or second-generation immigrants.
A 1996 report conducted by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention concluded that immigrants from North Africa were 23 times as likely to commit rape as Swedish men.
The lack of updated studies from 2006 makes it difficult to assess the current situation, though some media have reference the 2016 Swedish Crime Survey, which takes the opinions of 15,000 respondents on their perception of crime rates. That survey has stayed relatively steady since 2006.
