Surge in Rape Cases Puts Focus on Crime Ahead of Swedish Election
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Crime has become one of the hot-button issues ahead of Sweden’s election in September.
And the final data from 2017 show that security in Sweden has been going the wrong way in recent years. The country has seen a continued rise in reported rapes, which increased 10 percent last year and are up 35 percent over the past 10 years. The number of reported rape cases was 73 per 100,000 citizens in 2017, up 24 percent in the past decade.