The city destroyed by migration: Inside the Swedish town where armed gangs patrol the streets, crime has exploded and a beautiful social worker's murder has shocked Europe
- Social worker Alexandra Mezher, 22, was murdered in Mölndal on Monday
- Gothenburg suburb last year took in more unaccompanied refugee children than anywhere else in the country – 4,041 added to a population of 63,000
- Received £22.6million to provide housing for unaccompanied minors – the most state funding per capita than any town or city in Sweden
- Crime figures reveal there were 222 criminal complaints linked to migrant centres – between 20 October 2015 and 8 January this year
- MailOnline went inside lawless town where eyes of Europe have been watching since the senseless stabbing
Our f***ing politician should be shot,’ one out-spoken Swede told MailOnline this week. ‘What the f*** were they thinking opening our doors to everyone?’ The pedestrian bridge over the main road through Mölndal has become a meeting place for young refugees, residents claim. One said: 'The refugee children gather on the bridge at night. There are lights and it is warm do it us somewhere to go for them. 'But people become worried when they see gangs of youths hanging around at night.' Others gather outside the cut-price supermarket Netto in s housing estate a short walk from the station.
Tribute: Miss Mezher's mother described her as a 'angel' - and blamed Sweden's politicians for the country's migrant crisis
A playground and a basketball court are also popular meeting points. Another resident said: 'this used to be a good area. Now look at it.' The murder of social worker Alexandra Mezher at a home for unaccompanied refugees this week has shone the spotlight on the country’s controversial open-door immigration policy.
The 22-year-old’s mother Chimene, who arrived in Sweden as a refugee, claims the country is no longer safe. Heartbroken Mrs Mezher said: ‘We left Lebanon to escape the civil war, the violence and the danger. We came to Sweden where it was safe, to start a family. But it is not safe anymore.’
Her husband Bourous, 45, moved to Sweden from Beirut in 1989 and built up a pizza business. Mrs Mezher, who has three sons, said: 'She was not just my daughter, she was my angel. She was a just and fair human being. There were so many who loved her. She was my daughter, my friend.' She blamed Swedish politicians for a dramatic rise in immigration in Molndal – particularly of unaccompanied children. Officers in Mölndal say they have had to ignore lesser offences such as drug-dealing because they are so overrun by migrant crime, with gang fights and violent assaults. And in capital Stockholm police this week warned that the capital's main train station was 'overrun' by gangs of Moroccan street children 'stealing and groping girls'.
Swedish police revealed they have sent plain-clothes officers to monitor swimming baths in Stockholm after increased reports of sexual harassment of girls and women. It was also claimed this week police had been forced to flee after being attacked by a mob of asylum seekers as they tried to relocate a ten-year-old boy amid allegations he had been 'raped repeatedly' at a refugee centre. And staff at a migrant centre in Sweden had to flee where 19 asylum seekers ran riot with weapons. Crime statistics in Mölndal also contradict Abdasis’s assessment of ‘peace, happiness, life’ in the town. Police say they have responded to four or five emergency calls from refugee centres in the Gothenburg area – which includes Mölndal – every day since late October. The city’s most up-to-date crime figures reveal there were 372 incidents reported which led to 222 criminal complaints linked to migrant centres – between 20 October 2015 and 8 January this year. Mölndal’s politicians have refused to explain their open-door immigration policy. Marie Östh Karlsson, leader of Mölndal district council, thanked MailOnline for a request to discuss immigration, Sweden’s most pressing issue. But she added: ‘At the moment I choose not to give any interview on this topic [immigration].’
Police complain they are stretched to breaking point in having to deal with the rising migrant crime wave.