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Are these raped committed by refugees?

 The search results provide mixed information on whether the rapes committed in Sweden are by refugees or immigrants. Here are some key findings:

  • A previous report from Brå showed that rapes overall increased by ten percent in 2017 alone. While the percentage of those reporting violent crimes who were foreign-born increased from 33% to 43% between 2016 and 2017, the percentage of those reporting sexual crimes who were foreign-born decreased from 40% to 38%
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  • About 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the past five years were born abroad, according to data from Swedish national TV
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  • According to the researchers, Swedish-born offenders with Swedish-born parents accounted for 40.8% of the offenders
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  • The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) released an extensive report commissioned by the government to analyze all available statistics, including whether this upswing could be connected to the 2015 Syrian immigration wave. Collecting information for rape and sexual assault in Sweden... None of these sources provide us with a complete accounting of the “true” number of rapes that occur in Sweden, and they all suffer from different weaknesses
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  • There is little disagreement on the fact that the number of reported rapes and other sexual offenses has been on the rise in Sweden since 2005 and has seen two distinct spikes: one between 2005 and 2008 and another after 2015. However, determining the reason behind these numbers is another matter
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    .     Others use the spike in rape statistics after 2015 to argue that the increases are due to the large influx of refugees into Sweden. This is an argument that can be found all over certain sectors of online media, where Sweden is positioned as the 'rape capital' of the world and the finger is pointed, either implicitly or explicitly, squarely at the new arrivals from predominantly Muslim cultures
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