Posted on 03/05/2017 3:04:30 PM PST by blam
Sweden’s ruling liberal party Integration Minister has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn after she falsely told BBC the number of reported rapes in the country was falling. Ylva Johansson was giving an interview on the BBC News channel when she said there was no connection between crime and immigration and the level of rape in Sweden is “going down, and going down, and going down.”
“The level of rapes is not actually high in Sweden”, she also said, after attacking former UKIP leader Nigel Farage – who recently said Malmo was the “rape capital of Europe” – claiming he “doesn’t really know what he is talking about.”
However, it appears Ms. Johansson isn’t so well informed herself. The latest figures show a 13 per cent increase in reported sex crimes in Sweden in 2016, and there has been a general increase over the past ten years.
The misleading claims drew sharp criticism from MPs, economists, and criminologists.
“We don’t need more fake news,” Tweeted the Moderate party’s labour policy spokesperson Elisabeth Svantesson. She called on the Ms. Johansson to explain herself, adding: “In what way is the number of sex crimes decreasing?”
The minister was forced to correct herself on Saturday. “I based my answer on information that I had at the time, that the number of reports of rapes went down in 2015,” she told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.
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She lied, women died.
Rapes are not actually very high if you consider the average number of duck rapes every year in duck ponds.
Socialism trumps truth.
That is the trump socialists believe in.
I can understand her overlooking the grenade attacks. The results are fragmented.
Any outrage by big media or the UN mission to ‘empower women’? Nah!
The problem is the straight white Christian male in America who works day and night to provide for and protect and honor his woman.
Is it truly a lie if no one actually believes it?
Lol! And explosive.
The stats are for “reported” sex crimes.
Reading articles about sex crimes in Sweden, it appears that there is a lot of pressure on women and the police not to report or record sex crimes by immigrants.
Okay, I’ll take your word for it.
But what does that have to do with the silence by the ‘champion of women’ crowd? They all know at least as much as we do; very likely even more.
But what does that have to do with the silence by the ‘champion of women’ crowd? They all know at least as much as we do; very likely even more.
Sorry, I was not aiming at you, other than to comment on the article.
Swedish woman lying about muslims raping Swedish women. She must be a feminist.
Why is Sweden still so concerned with getting a piece of Assange?
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