Swedish police authorities have secretly established illegal databases of Romani people in a program originally designed for counterterrorism operations. Sadly, this is nothing new in Sweden's century long campaign against the Romani people.
This revelation came as a series of documents were leaked to a major Swedish daily in late September 2013. The largest racial registry contained 4,029 individuals, of which 842 were pre-teens. The registry includes 52 babies, entered during their first months.
When the news broke, police communication officers first denied the existence of the illegal database and then suggested that it was regular police intelligence, linked to an ongoing investigation of suspected criminals. What criminal activities a seven-month female baby could possibly be suspected of besides being born Romani was never explained.
