Swedish police are accused of covering up mass sexual assaults allegedly committed by refugees at a music festival.
It follows claims that gangs of youths, mostly from Afghanistan, molested girls as young as 11 or 12 at the annual event.
According to Dagens Nyheter newspaper, an internal police report on the 2015 ‘We Are Sthlm’ festival stated that “the problem of young men rubbing themselves up against young girls returned as in previous years.”
“These are so-called refugee youths [mostly] from Afghanistan…the [group] was also responsible for several fights during the evening,” police wrote.
Noting that the youngest victims were only 11 or 12, an unnamed officer admitted that he would “never have let my own daughter [go to] the festival if I knew what happened.”
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