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Swedish music festival cancels next year's event amid rape reports
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1 July 2017
16:52 CEST+02:00
 
Following one reported rape and several sexual assaults at this year's Bråvalla music festival, there will be no festival in 2018, the organisers said on Saturday.

One of Sweden's largest music festivals, Bråvalla has been arranged outside the eastern Swedish town Norrköping every summer for the past five years, and this Saturday, July 1st, is the final day of the 2017 edition.

https://www.thelocal.se/20170701/swedish-music-festival-cancels-next-years-event-amid-rape-reports
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Re: Swedish music festival cancels next year's event amid rape reports
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2017, 12:32:25 pm »
While 1 rape is too many, its also not unheard of at events like this anywhere in the world depending on the venue, security etc. Gotta figure, drugs, alcohol and thousands of young people are a potent mix.

There will be many mostly minor crimes reported after the Faster Horses Music Festival at Michigan Speedway later this month. There will be drugs, alcohol, young people and camping so the potential exists for crime and stupidity. That's not to suggest that people shouldn't go to these things, only that they be vigilant and stay sober enough to keep their wits about them.

http://fasterhorsesfestival.com/