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Sweden's Bråvalla Music Festival Cancelled Next Year After Sex Attacks

4-7-2017 < Red Ice Creations 60 142 words
 
Sweden's Bråvalla Music Festival Cancelled Next Year After Sex Attacks Police in Östergötland say four rapes and 23 sexual assaults were reported at country’s biggest music festival over the weekend Sweden’s largest music festival has been cancelled next year due to reports of rape and sexual assaults at the event over the weekend. Allegations of rape and sexual assault at several music festivals in recent years have sparked outrage in Sweden. Police in the south-eastern district of Östergötland, where the annual Bråvalla festival took place, said they received four rape and 23 sexual assault reports between Thursday and Sunday. One woman said she was forced to have sex with a man after changing her mind. “Certain [migrant?] men … apparently cannot behave. It’s a shame. We have therefore decided to cancel Bråvalla 2018,” the festival’s organisers said. The chief…
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