Police Investigating Multiple Reports Of Sexual Assault At Two Music Festivals

Police have confirmed they are currently investigating multiple reports of sexual assaults alleged to have occurred at two music festivals in Sweden last weekend.

As Fairfax reports, Swedish police have received five reports of rape and 12 reports of molestation at Norrkoping’s Bravalla Festival, while there were a further 32 reports of sexual assaults at Karlstad’s Putte I Parken.

It has been reported the women and girls who were allegedly groped at the festival were under 18 years of age and three were under 15.

Though police are investigating seven suspects, no arrests have been made at this time.

While the Putte I Parken festival featured a number of local names, Bravalla Festival boasted some huge international acts including Tenacious D, Rammstein, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Afrojack, Bring Me The Horizon, Wiz Khalifa and Australia’s own Tired Lion.

Headliner band Mumford & Sons took to Facebook last night to address the reports.

"We're appalled to hear what happened at the Bravalla Festival last weekend. Festivals are a celebration of music and people, a place to let go and feel safe doing so. We're gutted by these hideous reports," the band’s statement read.

"We won't play at this festival again until we've had assurances from the police and organisers that they're doing something to combat what appears to be a disgustingly high rate of reported sexual violence."

Meanwhile, local singer Zara Larsson took to Twitter last week after it was reported one of the assaults occurred during her set.

As translated by Fuse, Larrson’s tweets read, "Fuck you who shamelessly raped a girl in the audience. You deserve to burn in hell."

"Fuck you for making girls feel insecure when they go to a festival. I hate guys. Hate hate hate."

"How am I supposed to take it seriously when you say 'not all men', 'I'm a nice guy, I don't rape'?"

"Where do all the 'nice guys' go when girls are raped? Are you too busy telling women how nice you are?'

"It's not fucking hard to be generalized. It's hard to feel insecure about a festival where you just wanna go to have fun and enjoy."

"BUT YOU CAN'T, BECAUSE OF MEN. UGH."

People have to realize that generalizing a privileged and a socially powerful group is harmless

— Zara Larsson (@zaralarsson) July 1, 2016