Man, 21 years old:
Formerly convicted of theft and drug offense.

Male, 24 years old:

Earlier convicted of, among other things, threats to officials, drug smuggling, human rights and sexual exploitation of children.

Man, 18 years old:

Formerly convicted of abuse, violent opposition and attempted violence against civil servants.

Man, 19 years old:

Formerly convicted of theft and drug offenses

Male, 22 years old:

Formerly convicted of drug abuse, robbery, illegal driving and attempted gross fraud.

Crime Wave Engulfs Sweden as Fraud, Sexual Offenses Reach Record

The number of Swedes who were victims of crimes such as fraud and sexual offenses jumped to the highest level on record last year.

A survey by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention showed that 15.6 percent of people suffered one or more offences against the person (defined in the survey as assault, threats, sexual offences, robbery, fraud or harassment) last year. That’s up from 13.3 percent in 2015 and the highest number recorded since the annual Swedish Crime Survey started in 2006.


“Young women aged between 16 and 24 is the group that’s most subject to sexual offences, with 14 percent of young women stating that they were victims of at least one such crime during 2016,” the council said. “Among men in the same age group, 1.2 percent said they had been victims.”

Young women are also subject to harassment to a greater extent, the council said. They survey contains no answers as to why a certain type of crime increases, and analysis is needed to improve understanding of the reasons for the increase, it said.

Fewer than half of the crimes in the survey were reported to the police. Sexual offences, harassment and threats were the least reported while people most often notified the police of burglaries, the survey showed.

According to crime victim surveys from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (BRÅ), the actual rate of sex crimes has been more or less unchanged in Sweden between 2005 and 2014, despite the fact that immigration has increased during the same time period. Two reports from the BRÅ are relevant to the rate of rape among immigrants to Sweden and their descendants. The latest published report that indicates the association between immigrants and rape was published in 2005 and revealed that foreign born individuals were 5.5 times more likely to be charged of rape than individuals born in Sweden to two Swedish parents.[36][37] Unfortunately the report doesn't break down the foreign born category by country of origin despite the fact that country of origin has been found to be highly predictive of crime rates in other Nordic countries.[38]. Although an even earlier report published in 1996 by the BRÅ did break down rate of rape convictions by country of origin. It found that between 1985 and 1989 individuals born in Iraq, North Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia), and Africa (excluding Uganda and the North African countries) were convicted of rape at rates 20, 23, and 17 greater than individuals born in Sweden respectively.[36][18]

Swedish finance minister Magdalena Andersson in an interview has said that she regrets her government's decision to let more than 160,000 refugees into Sweden in 2015, and she said integration is not working.

Fridolin - who is also Sweden's education minister - emphasised that Andersson's (Swedish finance minister) opinion is not the government's official view.

This report indicates fewer then half the crimes mentioned in the report were actually reported to police. I am not sure what that means.