REVEALED: How 'totally unprecedented' migrant crisis is pushing Sweden to breaking point
SWEDEN has been pushed to breaking point as it struggles to deal with increasing migrant violence and a "totally unprecedented" influx of refugees.
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Has Sweden’s warm welcome of migrants now backfired? Violence and crime has swept the nation with police declaring they now have entire areas which are ‘no-go’ zones.
In 2015 alone Sweden, with a population of 9.5million, received over 160 000 asylum applications and the country is expected to take as many as 190,000 refugees, or two per cent of the population, in 2016.
Since the Second World War Sweden has prided itself on helping migrants who cross their borders despite some moves to the political right in recent years.
But now the once welcoming country has turned into a battle ground where Swedes are afraid to go outside and police are openly attacked by migrants.
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Some 52 areas have been put on a "blacklist" with some areas being so lawless two cars are sent to every call out.
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