Swedish police confirm illegal Roma database

Swedish police have confirmed that they have kept an illegal registry of more than 4,000 Roma people living in Sweden.

According to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, the database is a family tree with information about social security numbers and addresses and arrows which show the family bonds between those registered.

The Swedish government decided on the 26 March 2014 that the report on the abuses suffered by Roma people in Sweden during the 1900s would be followed up by a commission on ongoing anti-gypsyism.

ESO: Background information: Roma: Commission calls on Member States to step up efforts on integration http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-roma-commission-calls-on-member-states-to-step-up-efforts-on-integration/

Dagens Nyheter [via Presseurop], 23.09.13: ‘Police kept records on thousands of Roma’ http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/4167871-police-kept-records-thousands-roma

EUObserver, 27.03.14: Sweden examines its treatment of Roma http://euobserver.com/eu-elections/123642

Sweden: Regeringskanliet: White Paper on abuses and rights violations of Roma http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/16234/a/237026

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