.............Fed up with the mainstream Press (for example, the Aftonbladet newspaper has even warned that reporting offensive migrants’ behaviour is bowing to Right-wing extremism), Swedes have turned to social media and independent internet sites where they believe
information is unbiased and where they have their own say. Every week they post thousands of comments on what was, until recently, the taboo topic of migration
. Their comments accuse the Government of turning a blind eye as the police fight a losing battle against street crime and assaults in migrant hostels.
Meanwhile, the Gatestone Institute, an American think-tank, said the country’s over-crowded hostels (where migrants are housed) are in a state of anarchy.
It cited the example of
a terrifying brawl last month when ten policeman arrived at a hostel in the small city of Vasteras in central Sweden, after the repeated rape of a ten-year-old immigrant boy.
The policemen were confronted by a mob, shouting and shaking their fists. ‘The officers were forced to flee for their lives,’
reports the Gatestone account. ‘One of the officers later wrote in his report that it is only due to the presence of a police dog-handler that he and his colleagues were able to escape. He said he was “mentally prepared to fight for his life”.’
Vasteras was also the scene of a double murder at an Ikea store last year. The victims were ethnic Swedes, 55-year-old Carola Herlin and her 28-year-old son, Emil. Their
attacker was an Eritrean migrant, aged 36, who confessed to the random killings, apparently carried out with knives seized from the store’s kitchen department.
Swedish voters’ growing concern is clear. If there was an election tomorrow, polls suggest that the Eurosceptic Sweden Democrats would get nearly one in five votes. From small roots, it is now the third-largest party in the parliament. Support for the architects of mass immigration, the ruling Social Democrats, is at its lowest for 50 years.
As one seasoned Swedish journalist explained to me this week in Stockholm: ‘The other parties to the Left say Sweden Democrats is racist to try to put off Swedish voters from supporting them.
‘In reality, the party is conservative, equivalent to the Republicans in America.’
Perhaps in response to the anti-migrant sentiment, the government has announced plans to deport 80,000 migrants if their asylum requests are rejected.
Yet there is no indication of how this would be done – or indeed where they would be deported to, since many deliberately destroy their identification papers so they appear stateless and thus cannot be sent anywhere.
An indication of the Sweden Democrats’ stance came last autumn when it distributed leaflets on the Greek islands where thousands of migrants wait to travel to mainland Europe.
‘Our previously safe country is not safe any more,’ the leaflets warned: ‘Sweden now has the second highest number of rapes in the world, after Lesotho in Africa.’
Fierce, populist rhetoric, perhaps. But these are serious issues that are now worrying ethnic Swedes, as the authorities say they are preparing for another 140,000 migrants to arrive this year, 27,000 of them underage and most of them male.
No-go areas have sprung up in cities where, unless police units have a back-up team to guard them, it is dangerous to attend crime scenes because Molotov cocktails are hurled at them by migrants
, according to one senior inspector this week.
And there have been a spate of swimming pool attacks reported across the country, apparently by young male migrants overcome by the sight of female bathers.
This week it emerged that an all-girl bikini-clad group of vigilantes is now monitoring the swimming baths at Kalmar, which has 36,000 residents, but where 34 migrant hostels have opened. They want to stop women being molested by young foreign men who it has been reported have grabbed their breasts and genitals in the pool or near changing rooms.
Siri Bernhardsson, a 24-year-old assistant nurse who is a member of ‘Groping Guards’ vigilantes, said:
‘Swimming pools have become prime hunting grounds for gangs of men looking to prey on vulnerable women.‘Loads of women here say they have been touched. We are tired of men thinking they can come to Sweden and molest women. We want to teach these boys how to behave and be left in peace to swim without being felt up.’
She added: ‘It happens in train stations and in swimming pools. This should not be the case in 2016 in Sweden.’
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