A woman was gang-raped in an attack that was broadcast live on Facebook , but the Swedish detectives are already investigating it.
A witness who watched the incident online said she saw the victim being stripped and then sexually assaulted by several armed men and said the attack only ended several hours later when police arrived and switched off the webcam.
The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet said the assault took place in a flat in the town of Uppsala, north of Stockholm, and three people had been arrested.
Police were alerted by Josefine Lundgren, 21, who looked on in horror as she watched the live stream on a closed Facebook group.
Another online witness told the paper: ‘At first I thought it was a poorly orchestrated joke.’
He said: ‘The first thing you think is “how can you do such a thing to a girl?” And how can you do it live? It is totally sick.’
The apartment is being examined by forensic scientists, three men are being questioned and the woman is thought to be recovering in hospital.
The incident will be more bad publicity for Facebook Live, following the online torture of a man with learning difficulties in Chicago earlier this month
The Webcam captures moment police save the victim from horrific 3hr rape broadcast on Facebook
Daily Mail
