40+ sexual assaults and five reports of rape at two swedish music festivals

Five rapes and more than 40 cases of sexual assault have been reported at Bravalla and Putte i Parken festivals that occurred this weekend in Sweden.

Police recorded five reports of rapes and 12 of sexual molestation at Bravalla, Sweden’s biggest music festival, and 35 reports of sexual molestation at Putte i Parken, a free festival in Karlstad, where the youngest victim was just twelve years old.

“The descriptions [of perpetrators] are diverse, with the one common denominator being that these are all young men,” said Swedish police to Mirror.  One of the victims, Alexandra Larsson, 17, told MailOnline that the men were approximately 18-years-old and that “They were probably immigrants. I hate to say it. But it is the truth,” she said.

One of the performers at Bravalla, Zara Larrson said: “Damn you people who shamelessly rape a girl in public. Damn you guys who make a girl feel unsafe when they go to a festival. I hate guys. Hate hate hate.”

Fy fan för er killar som får tjejer att känna sig osäkra när de går på festival. Jag hatar killar. Hatar hatar hatar.

— Zara Larsson (@zaralarsson) July 1, 2016

After hearing about these reports, Mumford and Sons announced that they would boycott Bravalla music festival until police and organizers worked to improve security there.