Over 35 sexual assaults reported at Swedish fest
Police have confirmed that groups of young men targeted victims as young as 12 at the free Putte i Parken festival in Karlstad
News By | 4 July 2016
At least 35 young women were sexually assaulted at a Swedish music festival last weekend. Radio station P4 Värmland reports that police received 24 complaints from attendees at the final day of Putte i Parken (‘Party in the Park’) in Karlstad on Saturday, with a further 11 people coming forward since.
Speaking to Swedish news agency TT, Varmland police officer Per-Arne Eriksson said the victims were exclusively girls and young women and the perpetrators groups of teenage boys. The youngest victim was 12 years…
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