Swedish village gripped by migrant fear: Ex-pat says women scared to go out
A TERRIFIED mother says she fears for her young son's life as controversial plans to move hundreds of migrants in threatens to destroy a peaceful tiny Swedish village once ranked the best place to live in the Nordic country.
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Mother Michelle Russell say the council are completely underprepared for the arrival of 300 migrantsThe mother, who moved to Sweden from Stockport, Greater Manchester, said crimes including rape and murder in Swedish towns and villages where migrants had already arrived were sending shockwaves across the entire community of Vellinge.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, she said: “The council have not prepared for any form of security whatsoever. I live down the road and my 10-year-old son walks to school.
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“But now I am going to have to take that freedom away.”
Ms Russell’s clearly honestly-held fears serve as a snapshot of simmering tensions between locals and large numbers of new arrivals from Syria, the Middle East and Africa.
And they are backed by facts – police in Sweden this week warned women not to go out alone after a massive rise in sex attacks on women and children by men of a ‘foreign origin.’
The once peaceful town of Östersund is effectively a no-go zone for women after eight sex attacks in three weeks.
An asylum centre has opened there holding 900 refugees, mostly from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
The latest terrifying attempted rape assault saw a woman surrounded by three men who punched her to the ground and tried to pull her trousers down. Only her martial arts skills saved her.
Earlier two 10-year-old girls were groped at a bus stop by a gang of men who threatened to rape them and a woman was punched in the face, splitting her eyebrow, by a man who threatened to kill her after he made a rude comment to her.
And a woman walking on her own was attacked beaten and pushed to the ground by three men who held her down and forced their fingers into her mouth while screaming offensive, sexual words to her.
Police in Östersund, with a population of 45,000, say they have never seen anything like this before.
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 battleground where Swedes are afraid to go outside and police are openly attacked by migrants.
Ms Russell went on: “There has been rape and murder across Sweden and the council say it won’t happen down here.
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