Of
the 55 ‘assault rapes’ committed in Oslo last year, the perpetrators
were identified as having a ‘non-Western’ (i.e. non-white) appearance by
their victims in all but one case.
And
to date only eight men have been arrested for the crimes – all of them
of a ‘non-Norwegian background’, according to the newspaper Dagsavisen.
In
Norway ‘assault rapes’ are defined as rapes in which the victim and
attacker do not know each other. They accounted for 22 percent of the
rapes committed in the Norwegian capital last year.
A
wave of assault rapes in autumn 2011 made it the worst year on record
for the offence in Oslo. The total of 55 rapes, including 22 attempted
rapes, was a 104 percent increase on the number in 2010.
Three
of the eight men arrested so far have been sentenced. Two were given
eight and four years respectively for one attack, while another man was
sentenced for two other rapes and is a suspect in a third.
According
to state broadcaster NRK, DNA evidence has been the crucial factor in
determining guilt in the cases so far, but because many of the
perpetrators are new arrivals in Norway (often asylum seekers) they
usually do not have a police profile or DNA record.
More rapes than in the same period in 2011
Oslo
police have received 15 reports of assault rape so far in 2012, two
more than in the same period last year. Three people have been arrested,
two of them in the same case.
That
total is expected to rise significantly in autumn, as it did in 2011,
when the long dark nights begin to return to the city.
The
huge overrepresentation of non-whites and asylum seekers in rape
figures is nothing new in Norway. Between 2005 and 2010 there were 86
reported cases of assault rape or sexual assault in Oslo. In 83 of the
cases the perpetrator or perpetrators were described as non-white, and,
in the cases of assault rapes alone, every single offender was
non-white.
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