PH • GETTY Mother Michelle Russell say the council are completely underprepared for the arrival of 300 migrants

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Michelle Russell, 43, claims the local council are “completely unprepared” for the arrival of more than 300 migrants into houses near a elderly residential home at the end of the month. The mother, who moved to Sweden from Stockport, Greater Manchester, said crimes including rape and murder in Swedish towns and villages where migrants had already arrived were sending shockwaves across the entire community of Vellinge. Speaking to Express.co.uk, she said: “The council have not prepared for any form of security whatsoever. I live down the road and my 10-year-old son walks to school.

“The village children are left with no choice but to cycle or walk past asylum homes when they go to school or are out playing.

There has been rape and murder across Sweden and the council say it won’t happen down here Michelle Russell

“I have just given him the freedom of walking and cycling to school because the village is safe and quiet. “But now I am going to have to take that freedom away.” Ms Russell’s clearly honestly-held fears serve as a snapshot of simmering tensions between locals and large numbers of new arrivals from Syria, the Middle East and Africa. And they are backed by facts – police in Sweden this week warned women not to go out alone after a massive rise in sex attacks on women and children by men of a ‘foreign origin.’ The once peaceful town of Östersund is effectively a no-go zone for women after eight sex attacks in three weeks. An asylum centre has opened there holding 900 refugees, mostly from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. The latest terrifying attempted rape assault saw a woman surrounded by three men who punched her to the ground and tried to pull her trousers down. Only her martial arts skills saved her. Earlier two 10-year-old girls were groped at a bus stop by a gang of men who threatened to rape them and a woman was punched in the face, splitting her eyebrow, by a man who threatened to kill her after he made a rude comment to her. And a woman walking on her own was attacked beaten and pushed to the ground by three men who held her down and forced their fingers into her mouth while screaming offensive, sexual words to her. Police in Östersund, with a population of 45,000, say they have never seen anything like this before.

Sweden is one of the countries absorbing a huge number of migrants coming to Europe to seek asylum, bringing turmoil to many citizens way of life. Since the Second World War Sweden has prided itself on helping migrants who cross their borders despite some moves to the political right in recent years. But now the once welcoming country has turned into a battleground where Swedes are afraid to go outside and police are openly attacked by migrants. Ms Russell went on: “There has been rape and murder across Sweden and the council say it won’t happen down here.

PH Migrants have already sent shockwaves across the community of Vellinge

“But since the major asylum crisis there have been more than 5,000 reports of crime within three months, including rape, murder and assault within and outside asylum homes and where children are not always children but young, severely damaged adults.” Ms Russell claims the country’s immigration department refuse to undergo "proper age tests" on migrant children that are sent to live in the asylum homes. She went on: “You can have young men going in a class with children aged between 12 or 13. “These men could be aged from 20 to 23.”

PH Michelle moved to Vellinge Sweden from Stockport in Greater Manchester

It comes after it was revealed the asylum seeker who stabbed Alexandra Mezher to death as she worked at a refugee centre in Sweden was an adult, not a 15-year-old as he had claimed. Ms Russell also lives with her 80-year-old father – an ex Daily Mirror journalist - who is battling with dementia. The family moved to Vellinge from Malmö city after a man was shot outside their home. Despite resident concerns, the local council has no plans to increase security - and this is instead left to one individual police officer.

PH Residents of Vellinge have now started a campaign on Facebook protesting against the council

She went on: “It is well-known through the media that 5,000 Islamic State (ISIS) soldiers are currently circulating in Europe. “I personally moved my entire family away from the violence and chaos of Malmö city to Vellinge last year. “Hoping for a safe and peaceful future within Vellinge council , famous for it’s low crime rate, peaceful, child-friendly atmosphere, I bought a house in one of the villages. “The council have now decided to destroy this, unknown if it’s down to pure stupidity, naivity or politicians with more interest in their political careers rather than preserving the health and safety in the local society.”

Cologne: Sex Attacks and Robberies Tue, January 12, 2016 Thirty-one suspects, including 18 asylum seekers, are under investigation over offences including sexual assault and theft in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Far right protestors in Lepzig have rallied against refugees and German chancellor Angela Merkel. Play slideshow Reuters•Getty 1 of 22 Protestors in Lepzig rally after over 100 women were sexually assualted on New Year's Eve

Another resident said the current situation was undemocratic and that politicians are implementing the measures without the support of the public. Ola Persson said: “Politicians are making undemocratic decisions that effect the common person’s safety and security in the community. “Matters affecting so many people must have a wide public support to be implemented.” Sweden is at the heart of Europe's migrant crisis, with 10,000 asylum seekers arriving in the sparsely populated Scandinavian country every week.

PH The family moved to Vellinge from Malmö city after a man was shot outside their home