Sweden

This data published Swedish national television “SVT”, who had examined and counted all the sentences handed down by the courts to thereby present a complete crime picture in Sweden.

Sweden, however, has had thousands of other reported rape cases, for which there is no ethnic record. Migration and crime have turned into key problems during the campaign for general elections in Sweden. The vote will be held on 9 September.

Swedish anti-emigration Democrats are expected to gain ground, even though they have dropped as the third force in the latest public opinion poll.

A TV programme, broadcast this Wednesday in “SVT” made public that the total number of offenders over the past five years has gone to 843. Of them, 197 were from the Middle East and North Africa, and 45 came from Afghanistan.

“We are extremely clear on the programme, that we are dealing with a small percentage of people coming from abroad who have been convicted of rape”, editor-in-chief Wolf Johansson told BBC.

He also stressed that the number of rapes reported in Sweden was even higher, so conclusions could not be drawn on the role of migrants in sexual aggression.

By the time Sweden accepted the highest number of asylum seekers in 2015, the number of reported rape cases dropped by 12 percent. In the face of the refugee crisis, about 160 thousand immigrants arrived in the Nordic country, more than in any other EU per capita.

The increase in the number of migrants also raised doubts about Sweden's ability to integrate them. The centre-left Social Democrat government announced some restrictions very soon, and the number of new arrivals dropped dramatically, follows Tch.

“application SVT” also found that in cases when the victim did not recognise the aggressor, the percentage of foreign offenders was more than 80%. A former Afghanistan-born police officer told the show that, some Afghan youths who had arrived in Sweden in recent years, had views that differed significantly from the Swedish idea of gender and sexual equality.