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Festival-goers have been ordered to wear the accessories because officers believe it will “draw attention to the issue of sexual assault and urge those affected to report”.

However it remains to be seen how effective these wristbands are really going to be as the majority of perpetrators are said to be recent migrants who have landed in Sweden that can’t read them.

And in early signs the measures will clearly not work, it emerged a young woman was sexually assaulted by a mob of migrant men ironically wearing the “don’t grope” wristbands at Bravalla music festival.

Her horrifying ordeal comes after girls as young as 12 were some of the 23 females who reported attacks carried out by a gang of seven to eight men at the Putte i Parken festival last weekend.