For three years now, the Swedish Forensic Medicine Board has assessed the age of asylum seekers, where the Swedish Migration Board considers it uncertain whether they are over or under 18 years. Knees and wisdom teeth are x-rayed. Up to the end of last year, more than 11,000 people have been surveyed. More than 80 per cent have been estimated to be over 18 years.

- On our part, it is important that we do not question whether we should have medical age assessments or not, says Migration Minister Morgan Johansson (S).

"If you have age assessments, they must be as legal as possible, and if we have trials where children are judged as adults, it is nothing more than a legal scandal," said Rasmus Ling, migration policy spokesperson for the Environment Party.

No investigation is available

Critics believe that the survey method is unreliable and after the Miljö Party's push was announced in April last year that the government would appoint an independent review of the surveys in 2019.

But there is no investigation yet. The Environment Party and the Social Democrats continue to discuss what the directives for the inquiry should look like - and this is where the shoe is squeezed. The environmental party has for a long time questioned the age assessments and for many in the party the question is very important.

- We may have expelled thousands of lonely children even though they had the right to stay in Sweden. For me, it's nothing but a scandal, says Alexander Franzén, who is responsible for the issue in Green Youth.

"Extremely frustrating"

But the Social Democrats are instead highlighting other aspects of the issue.

"It is important to be able to check how old the asylum seekers really are and we cannot be the only country in our world that is unable to do so," says migration minister Morgan Johansson (S).

- It is extremely frustrating that it takes time to start the investigation, says Rasmus Ling (MP).