With sexual assault cases up more than 60 per cent in just one year, and unaccompanied minors mugging pensioners to pay for hard drugs, police in Uppsala admit crime in the city has reached new levels.
These are challenges like weve never seen before, said Uppsala police commissioner Daniel Larsson, quoted in a press release on the forces website which states the city has a brand new street scene [
] today compared to just a few years ago.
Between summer 2015 and summer 2016 the city also saw a 60 per cent rise in muggings, and police reported that officers feel they are facing a harsher climate and reduced respect for their profession while out on patrol. Recent cases noted by the newspaper include that of a 66-year-old man and a 90-year-old man who were attacked in muggings where the criminals seized, or attempted to wrest, jewellery from their victims person.
Noting that people from Afghanistan are over-represented among the abusers, the police commissioner suggested that this is down to the countrys history of opium production as well as well known problems of segregation.
On Friday, Moderate party MP Marta Obminska wrote to Swedens interior minister about crime plaguing the city, where she said people, not just girls now find it uncomfortable to go outside.
Crime Soars As Young Migrants Mug Pensioners for Drugs Money - Breitbart