Hayes told a local reporter that she felt that if she had been "one of the guys", she would have been hit. One of her crew had his foot run over by a car while another was hit in the face when they arrived in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby, which is heavily populated with migrants, to conduct interviews with locals.

Liz Hayes says the crew were 'assaulted and insulted' in Rinkeby.

They were guided there by a well known anti-immigration activist and writer Jan Sjunnesson, was also the first to report the incident.

"I was glad, right then, that I was a woman," Hayes is reported as saying. "I felt they wouldn't hit me because of that, and that might mean I could slow things down a bit."

A cameraman and a producer were assaulted and injured in the attack, which began when they were approached by a man in a car wanting to know why they were wanting to do filming in the suburb. He then drove deliberately over the cameraman's foot. He recorded the assault as he fell to the ground.