Skåne police held a press conference on the register of Roma with 4,000 names. Photo: Scanpix Register scandal: Caught in the act More than 4,000 Roma have illegally recorded by the Swedish police. The news was revealed by the Daily News on Monday, has aroused strong reactions both in Sweden and abroad. Now requires several politicians strong action while representatives of Roma organizations speak of deep sorrow and wrecked confidence in the police. - For many Roma in Sweden is the terrible wounds that are being removed. I sat on the phone all day on Monday with people who heard of him. They were shocked, distraught. It says Stefano Kuzhicov, who is chairman of the National Association of Roma in Europe, to the worker. The records so far uncovered contains thousands of names, many of them children and some as young as two years. Skåne police themselves denied at first that there would be a record but was soon forced back and then blamed instead on individual employees before they finally acknowledged the extensive registration. According to a former police officer who Aftonbladet has talked to felt the police authorities in Skåne also very well to the alert, which should have been going on since 2005, and he describes it as sanctioned from above. For Stefano Kuzhicov, however, came the revelation is not a shock. Instead, he describes the news rather as a kind of relief that something he suspected a long time has finally come out. - My suspicion has always existed. If you only knew how many Roma, when they had contact with the police, who asked out on their friends and got to look at the pictures to see if it is someone they know, he says. News of the registry, which police call "analysis files", quickly spread across the world and already during Monday afternoon went there to read about the Swedish police in several international media. Among other things, expressed the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks strong criticism. - It is alarming that in 2010s Europe, there is a police force in a democratic country who engage in racial profiling, he said in an interview with the Daily News. - The Swedish government has with this registry helped to further alienate both Roma and other minorities from the Swedish society, he added. Nils Muiznieks now urge the Swedish government to investigate what happened, and to immediately delete the records. But for those affected, or do not yet know if they lost a few records, the wounds of the disclosure difficult to heal, explains Stefano Kuzhicov for the worker. - Many Roma roots in Sweden for hundreds of years and have suffered terrible things throughout history. It now comes up makes an already damaged confidence in the police and authorities drops to rock bottom. Sunita Memetovic sits on the Government's reference group on Roma integration and also studying law at Uppsala University. She has been working on a project that seeks to enhance the motivation to study among Roma youth and tells worker that she is shocked by the actions of the police. - It evokes strong feelings about how it was during World War II when the Nazis gathered information about Jews and Roma, she says. - That we have it like this in Sweden in 2013 is nothing but shameful and terrible. This is a major setback and once again shows that there is a special attitude of the authorities towards Roma. We need to get answers to why we are repeatedly treated like this. Stefano Kuzhicov now wants to bring representatives of Roma organizations around Sweden for a meeting on how to proceed. He feels, however, that public support has been great since the news was revealed early on Monday morning and says that he rejoices over it. - However, we want to meet politicians as justice minister Beatrice Ask for answers about how they will get to the bottom of this, he says. However, he wants to wait to claim responsibility in Skåne police resignation. - That I leave it to politicians who can better laws. But as I said, confidence is down to rock bottom right and there are many who feel that now enough is enough. One of the politicians who reacted hardest on disclosure of records is Liberal Party Member of Parliament Roger Haddad, who also serves on the National Police Agency's Board. "After the police management's explanation, or rather excuse, around purpose of the register, there is only one requirement and that is that police management in Skåne have to leave their mission," he writes in a press release. When the worker reaches the Left Party's correct policy spokesperson Lena Olsson she is still shocked. - These things will obviously never be accepted and violates several laws. I just gasped when I heard about it. Now we have to get all the cards on the table to see how high up this is sanctioned. We, the Left believes it is serious enough information to Justice Minister Beatrice Ask, should come to the Justice Committee and talk about what action she intends to take.