Swedish minister does U-turn on comments about Sweden's sex crimes

Sweden's Integration Minister Ylva Johansson has done a U-turn after she told the BBC that the number of reports of sex crimes in Sweden was dropping.

During a recent interview with the BBC, the minister said: "When we make surveys about if any woman has been... if there has been a rape towards her or sexual harassment, we can see that the level is going down, and going down and going down”.

However, this isn't the case. The latest stats actually show a 13 percent increase in reported sex crimes in Sweden in 2016, and a general increase over the last ten years (more on this later).

Swedish social media users - including MPs, economists, and criminologists - flocked to Twitter to point out the minister's mistake following her TV appearance.

The Moderate party's labour policy spokesperson Elisabeth Svantesson was among those to criticize Johansson.

"We don't need more fake news," she wrote on Twitter, calling for the minister to...
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