The head of the Swedish ambulance drivers' union confirmed in a recent interview with journalist Paulina Neuding the existence of "no-go zones" where it is too dangerous to enter without police protection.
"I know it's sensitive and controversial," Gordon Grattidge said. "But for us it's really a no go because we have directives not to go into dangerous situations."
Grattidge explained to Neuding that the problem with these areas is linked directly to immigration policy in the country. "In these areas, the no-go zones, the majority of the people are immigrants."
Gattridge went on to tell Neuding that ambulance drivers are blocked from leaving these areas and have had rocks thrown at them. He also said "hand grendes have been thrown at police" in majority-immigrant areas.
Indeed, Reuters reported in 2015 of an alarming number of grenade attacks in the city of Malmo:
The attacks, as well as other bombs placed in cars and parks, have wounded two people this year but not killed anyone. The pattern of targets – from flats to offices and one building housing a Ramadan celebration – appears random. No one has been arrested.
The best guess, experts say, is a gang turf war that could easily see fatalities as tit-for-tat attacks spiral.
Iraqi-born Ghanem Almanei described the attack on the Ramadan celebration, attended by some 50 people. "It was a really big bomb. It was women, girls inside." said Almanei, his voice shaking, half-an-hour after men on motor bikes threw a grenade against the building. "I don't feel safe now in this country."
As Neuding wrote last month at THE WEEKLY STANDARD, there are rising incidents of sexual assault against women in Sweden linked to the influx of refugees and immigrants in that country:
In early January 2016, Eriksdalsbadet, Stockholm's main swim center, decided to separate men and women in jacuzzis as a consequence of sexual harassment by "unaccompanied minors"—a group consisting mainly of Afghan males who seek asylum in Sweden as minors but are often older. Police also had to be called in to patrol the center.
Less than two weeks after the Cologne attacks, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter revealed that there had been similar abuse at the summer music festival We Are Stockholm in August the previous two years. Numerous young men, again mainly "unaccompanied minors," surrounded and attacked young girls—a modus operandi described by the organizers as a shocking "new phenomenon." In 2015, police made 200 suspects leave the festival area.
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