GANGS OF MOROCCAN STREET CHILDREN MAKE SWEDEN'S MAIN STATION A 'NO GO' ZONE.

GANGS of Moroccan street children have "taken over" Sweden's biggest train station pickpocketing, groping women and assaulting workers, Stockholm police have revealed.

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Gangs of Moroccan children have reportedly 'taken over' Stockholm train station

Officials said the capital's main station has become unsafe because of the all-male migrant mobs spreading terror among travellers and staff.

Gang members, some as young as nine, are said to refuse any offers from Swedish authorities to get them into safe housing.

The government has been forced to team up with Moroccan counterparts to repatriate all under-18s trying to seek asylum.

One officer told Swedish TV that he would not let his family go to the central station.

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"These guys are a huge problem for us. They steal stuff everywhere and assault security guards.

"They grope girls between their legs and slap them in the face when they protest. All police officers are aware of this. I would never let my children go to the central station. No officer would," he said.

The Scandinavian country has seen a dramatic increase in the number of Moroccan unaccompanied teenagers applying for asylum in the past four years.

There are currently over 400 in the country. They do not qualify for automatic refugee status as their homeland is seen as capable of caring for them.

Although the authorities house all of those before their claims are decided, many run away and end up living on the capital's streets.

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There are currently estimated to be more than 400 unaccompanied Moroccan children in Sweden.

 

 

Stockholm police estimate that at least 200 Moroccan children are sleeping rough around the main train station living off criminal activity.

Desperate officers have started arresting the teens for public drunkenness in order to get them off the streets for a few hours.

The gangs are made up of orphans who grew up on the streets of Casablanca and Tangier where there are around 800,000 homeless children.

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Swedish migration authorities first reported an increase in Moroccan unaccompanied minors applying for asylum in 2012, when 145 arrived.

These guys are a huge problem for us. They steal stuff everywhere and assault security guards

Swedish police officer

The number more than doubled in 2013.

Out of the 505 unaccompanied Moroccan children who have applied for asylum in Sweden, 20 percent ran away from their state housing or foster families.

Interior Minister Anders Ygeman this week said that he is working with Moroccan officials to return the children to their home country.

"We are in agreement that this is a joint problem for us to solve, and that we both need to find ways of identifying these people and achieve repatriation," Mr Ygeman said.