So this is kind of two cases in one. Because of the incidents in Köln, information has surfaced about groups of boys sexually harassing women and girls as young as eleven two years in a row at a major youth festival in Sweden.
The organizer said there's always been incidents, but in 2014 and 2015 it was on a whole new scale and got so bad that the police considered gender-segregating the festival to avoid further assaults. According to the police, the perpetrators were mostly young Afghan men that had come to Sweden as unaccompanied minors(refugees). The groups would often surround the women to assault/harass them.
Despite the troubles at the festival, the police left it out of reports and told the media that the festival had been uneventful and successful from their perspective.
In response to this surfacing now, chief of police Peter Ågren had this to say:
"It's a sore subject, sometimes we are afraid to speak about it because we believe it's playing into the hands of those hostile to foreigners."
He also says he is very critical to the politically correct climate in the media, where the police have to be constantly on guard not to be labeled as racists or fascists. For example, he says, when they release a description of a suspect they have to be very careful about mentioning ethnicity. He also fears that being honest will fuel right-wing party populism and racism.
Only have Swedish and Norwegian sources, sorry. But it checks out.
http://www.dagbladet.no/2016/01/10/n...ring/42699774/
http://nyheteridag.se/sodermalmspoli...edemokraterna/
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/ove...aldrig-vidare/
So police admits to keeping quiet about a huge problem of sexual harassment and rape at a youth concert because the perpetrators were refugees. Destroying the trust of the girls who had reported it and failing to warn people to allow them to keep their kids away from it or take precautions.