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2016-10-07 15:51:53 UTC
The historic and idyllic island of Gotland on the east coast of Sweden with a population of 57,000 has long been popular with tourists and a stopover for Baltic cruise liners. But now the capital of Gotland, the medieval walled town of Visby, has been shaken by events not seen since Viking days and special police units have been sent from mainland Sweden to prevent the breakdown of law and order.
The trouble started a year ago when the island authorities decided that Gotland, with its homogenous Swedish population and ancient identity and traditions should become modern and multicultural. It was time for Gotland shake off it's sleepy cobwebs and become a vibrant and dynamic part of the new diverse Sweden. The Island was to open refugee centres and welcome hundreds of immigrant "New Gotlanders" who would enrich the isle with their exotic cultures and traditions. The old Gotlanders were exited by the prospect and looked forward with enthusiasm to the new friends they were going to make.
Things did not go as the Gotlanders were lead to believe or had expected. Shortly after the arrival of the immigrants a crime wave of never before seen proportions hit the once peaceful isle. A series of muggings, assaults and rapes flooded over the historical hills and valleys and shocked Gotlanders to the core. It became dangerous for women to go out alone at night, something unthinkable in Gotland just a year ago. And behind it all were the Gotlanders new friends, the immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa who all seemed to be fit, healthy and rather cocksure and assertive young men in their twenties and thirties.
Then, last week, came the final straw. A gang of immigrant men, five of them, held a wheelchair bound young Gotland woman prisoner for three hours and gang raped her. The woman, helpless out of her wheelchair, could offer no resistance or try to escape while she was repeatdly gang raped in what was described as "torture like conditions". The police quickly caught the suspects and held them in custody. The next day the public prosecutor ordered the men to be released since because no force had been used it could not be established with certainty that what had happened was rape.
This at last aroused the ancient Viking genes in the Gotlanders. An angry mob surrounded the police station in Visby threatening the safety of the suspected rapists and a breakaway group headed off to the prosecutors home and threatened to deal out mob justice to him. The police quickly smuggled the suspects out of Gotland and onto mainland Sweden and put police protection on the prosecutor and others involved in the case. But feeling are running high in the once peaceful Island. The Gotlanders, after a summer of muggings, robberies, sexual assaults and rapes have had enough of the immigrant enrichment they were promised and are looking for revenge.
There are still hundreds of young immigrant men on the island and things are turning nasty. Now, a year after the enthusiastic decision to enrich Gotland with immigrants, the Island is in chaos and the first detachments of police Special forces are arriving in Visby:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article23665550.ab
Gotland is like Sweden in a microcosm and things are also looking very grim on mainland Sweden.
The trouble started a year ago when the island authorities decided that Gotland, with its homogenous Swedish population and ancient identity and traditions should become modern and multicultural. It was time for Gotland shake off it's sleepy cobwebs and become a vibrant and dynamic part of the new diverse Sweden. The Island was to open refugee centres and welcome hundreds of immigrant "New Gotlanders" who would enrich the isle with their exotic cultures and traditions. The old Gotlanders were exited by the prospect and looked forward with enthusiasm to the new friends they were going to make.
Things did not go as the Gotlanders were lead to believe or had expected. Shortly after the arrival of the immigrants a crime wave of never before seen proportions hit the once peaceful isle. A series of muggings, assaults and rapes flooded over the historical hills and valleys and shocked Gotlanders to the core. It became dangerous for women to go out alone at night, something unthinkable in Gotland just a year ago. And behind it all were the Gotlanders new friends, the immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa who all seemed to be fit, healthy and rather cocksure and assertive young men in their twenties and thirties.
Then, last week, came the final straw. A gang of immigrant men, five of them, held a wheelchair bound young Gotland woman prisoner for three hours and gang raped her. The woman, helpless out of her wheelchair, could offer no resistance or try to escape while she was repeatdly gang raped in what was described as "torture like conditions". The police quickly caught the suspects and held them in custody. The next day the public prosecutor ordered the men to be released since because no force had been used it could not be established with certainty that what had happened was rape.
This at last aroused the ancient Viking genes in the Gotlanders. An angry mob surrounded the police station in Visby threatening the safety of the suspected rapists and a breakaway group headed off to the prosecutors home and threatened to deal out mob justice to him. The police quickly smuggled the suspects out of Gotland and onto mainland Sweden and put police protection on the prosecutor and others involved in the case. But feeling are running high in the once peaceful Island. The Gotlanders, after a summer of muggings, robberies, sexual assaults and rapes have had enough of the immigrant enrichment they were promised and are looking for revenge.
There are still hundreds of young immigrant men on the island and things are turning nasty. Now, a year after the enthusiastic decision to enrich Gotland with immigrants, the Island is in chaos and the first detachments of police Special forces are arriving in Visby:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article23665550.ab
Gotland is like Sweden in a microcosm and things are also looking very grim on mainland Sweden.