In ten years the Stockholm police had a secret register containing offensive reviews, speculations and clean errors on over 2,000 battered women, revealing echo today.
Linn, 28, described by the words: “backpack with maltreatment by parents and the victim of pedophilia at a young age.”
– It is so offensive that they presume to do so, she says to Aftonbladet.
The biggest secret and totally illegal, the police have at Södertörn victim group for over ten years gathered extensive information on threatened and abused women, according echo sources.
The database is very reminiscent of the famous “romregistret ‘and contains data on women’s children, diagnoses, and religion.
Had no idea
The echo journalist told Linn, 28, that she is one of over 2000 women in the database. Then she thought at first that it was about the time she was stabbed by a pedophile when she was 15 years.
– I have a history of recorded, a lot entered, she says to Aftonbladet.
Linn had no idea that the Stockholm police had a secret registry. Much less that she was there myself in it.
A few years ago, she lived in an abusive relationship. In periods where her fiancé at very violent, but she chose not to report. It would still does not help, she thought.
But one day, three years ago, during an altercation he picked up several knives and threatened to harm your pets. Then rang Linn police and ended up in the registry:
“Plaintiff borderline, and bipolar. Backpack by maltreatment by parents and exposed to pedophilia at a young age.”
Linn has left her partner who abused her. She is now drug free, have a job and apartment. With the echo revealing “all came to the surface again,” as she puts it.
– I do not think the police want us badly. But I do not understand that they can take such liberties to take this type of data. They blame the women.
Ville “keep an eye”
What then was the purpose of the registry that ten years ago was established by the Crime Victim Compensation Group in Södertörn, south of Stockholm?
According echo informant wanted the police “keep an eye on the women if they find a new assailant.” The idea behind is that abused women seek out a new man who abuses them.
Gun Heimer is a consultant and leads the National Centre for protection of women on the government’s behalf. She is an expert on men’s violence against women and to echo she says this about the secret registry:
– That women would search for the perpetrator again is anti-intellectual to say. We should focus on the perpetrator.
“This is slander”
Nina is another woman in the database. According to it, she met her partner in a treatment center and she’ll be Jehovah’s Witnesses. Both tasks, the police have got wrong, says Nina to echo.
– It is slanderous, however. This is believed of course was in the 1800s.
Beatrice has repeatedly reported her former husband for assault. Evidence that one of her sons are involuntarily on the psyche shock her.
– Damn, frankly, she says.
“The purpose is to protect”
Repeatedly calling echo of former and current police officers, many in management positions who had access to the registry. No claim to know it, and even the police officers themselves entered the data into the database. Finally they get hold of Christian Agdur, police chief in the city of Stockholm. The database is, everything is in order, all necessary permits, says Agdur for echo:
– The purpose is to protect women better.
But it turns out that the police have been given permission to identify men who beat, not women who are beaten. And that the permit expired in 2010.
– This is the information I got. It sounds serious in my ears, says Agdur when Echo confronts him with the data.
Footnote: The names of the victims are fictitious
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