58% of rapes in Sweden are committed by foreigners

The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats came third in the Swedish election on Sunday, narrowly behind the Moderates (conservatives) but did much less well than polls had predicted. 

Some suggestion has been made of irregularities at the ballot. The Danish observer said it was the worst conducted election he had ever observed (and he has observed one in Russia). 

As centre left and centre right coalitions almost tied, however, the Sweden Democrats are in a powerful position as kingmaker.

As background to why Swedes vote for the Swedish Democrats, I came across this information.

"There is data about the ethnic background of convicted rapists in Sweden. Over 58% of
them were foreigners in the 2012-2017 period. This obviously does not include people of immigrant origin who are Swedish citizens. This trend goes back decades. Ethnic background of criminal offenders was last included in the annual government report about crime in 2005, when foreigners were vastly over-represented. After that the government stopped including ethnicity in the reports. But the data can still be gathered in different ways. The 58% is from court records." Source: Bojan Pancevski of the Wall St. Journal. 

Rape in Sweden does include all sorts of things that would not be considered rape in other countries, which is why so many rapists are convicted. The proportion of "assault rapes" might be higher than 58%. 

As a comparison, back in 2010 all the "assault rapes" in Oslo for which men were convicted were committed by asylum seekers from a 'non-Western background', but apparently there were only five convicted "assault rapists" that year. In Norway, which has taken in a much smaller number of immigrants than Sweden, roughly two-thirds of rapes are committed by foreigners, immigrants or second-generation immigrants (these are elided in Norwegian statistics).

I met a Swedish prison officer recently who told me that about half the prisoners in her prison were non-white. A report in Sweden by Ann-Christine Hjelm from Karlstads University found that 85% of those sentenced to at least two years in prison for rape in 2002 were foreign born or second-generation immigrants. 

A 1996 report by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention said that immigrants from North Africa were 23 times as likely to commit rape as Swedish men. Men from the rest of Africa were 16 times more likely and Iraqis were 20 times more likely to commit rape. Men from Bulgaria and Romania were 18 times more likely to rape. 

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, speaking at a conference on Wednesday in the Swedish city of Malmo, where about half the population have an immigrant background, said Europe was "morally responsible" for helping "a refugee really facing danger against their life" but that refugees should go home when the danger has passed. He went on: "Receive them, help them, educate them... but ultimately they should develop their own country. ..I think Europe belongs to the Europeans."