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Suspected gang rape in city park

A 24-year-old woman walking home through central Örnsköldsvik, in northern Sweden, was dragged into a city park by several men and raped in the early hours of Saturday morning.

According to local police, the crime occurred between one and two o´clock in the morning.

The woman was dragged from a nearby bus stop by the group of men, into the Örnparken parj, where she was pushed onto the icy ground, and then had her underwear pulled off, reported the local newspaper Örnsköldsviks Allehanda.

The woman was then raped by the group of men, and the police have classified the crime as aggravated rape, with an alternative charge of attempted aggravated rape.

“She’s been badly shocked by this,” said deputy head of investigation Lars-Åke Lemón to the newspaper.

The woman has been too traumatized to give much information to the police, who will soon be speaking to her again in hopes of getting more details.

No suspects have yet been arrested for the crime, and police remain unsure of how many men were involved in the rape.

“But there were several of them,” Lars-Åke Lemón told national newspaper Aftonbladet.

The woman was injured by the attack, and was taken to the hospital for treatment.

“She’s injured her arms and legs, for instance. She was examined at the hospital but is no longer there,” Lemón said to Aftonbladet.

Police are now searching for witnesses who were in the area around the time of the crime.

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POLICE

‘It is very serious’: Swedish PM vows to act after claims of police leaks to gangs

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson expressed concern of reports in newspaper Dagens Nyheter of police employees dating and leaking information to gang members.

'It is very serious': Swedish PM vows to act after claims of police leaks to gangs

Sweden has struggled to contain a surge in violence in recent years as criminal gangs feud for control of drug markets, with bombings and shootings recorded weekly.

Kristersson’s comments followed a report by newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) that claimed to have found multiple instances of police employees leaking sensitive information about ongoing investigations to criminals.

In some cases, the police employees allegedly were in intimate relationships with gang members to whom they leaked information.

According to DN, which published the report over the weekend, in four cases the leaks – which included information about enemies of the gang member involved in the relationship – preceded revenge attacks, including murders.

At least 30 employees had for different reasons been considered “security risks” and either resigned or were forced to quit, the newspaper reported.

DN said that in several cases, criminals had begun “sexual relations with strategically selected police officers”.

Kristersson on Monday told news agency TT that it was “very concerning information”.

“There are many great risks and one is that trust in police declines, that one gets the idea that mafia-like methods are used to infiltrate law enforcement,” the head of government said.

“It is very serious and we need to address it,” he continued.

Kristersson said that purely based on the initial report he could not say whether it constituted a threat to national security or not.

“But the mere suspicion of these types of connections are damaging,” he told the news agency.

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