Minister: No rise in sex attacks at Swedish fests
The sexual assaults at Bråvalla and Putte i Parken are not symptomatic of an increase in sex crimes, says Anders Ygeman, with attacks "less common than 20 years ago"
News By | 19 January 2017
Despite multiple sexual assaults at two Swedish festivals last summer, the incidence of sexual harassment at live music events in Sweden is less frequent than it was two decades ago, interior minister Anders Ygeman has said.
Speaking yesterday at concert industry conference Sweden Live, Ygeman said: “Sexual molestation at festivals is, in my eyes, less common now than 20 years ago.”
The minister’s views were echoed by Kristina Ljungros, chairwoman of sex-education nonprofit RFSU, who said her organisation does “not believe…
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