Prominent Swedish psychiatric murder is treated as a “terrorist”: Swedish intelligence service
On Wednesday, a 32-year-old suspect was arrested shortly after stabbing to death a 64-year-old psychiatrist.
The police had initially charged him with murder and said that he acted out of resentment for Swedish psychiatry.
“There is no other suspect in this case than the 32-year-old detainee,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The man is now suspected of “murder of a terrorist nature” and “preparations for murder of a terrorist nature”, it was written.
The prosecutor refused to comment further, as did the suspect’s lawyer.
According to Swedish media, the suspect had connections to NMR, a Nordic neo-Nazi group.
The police said last week that they knew about the report but that they did not see it as linked to the murder of the psychiatrist Ing-Marie Wieselgren.
The attack took place in daylight in Visby on Gotland, when Almedalen, an annual gathering for Sweden’s political class, was held nearby.
The accused’s lawyer said on Friday that his client, who suffers from “psychological problems”, was ready to attack other people if he had not found the victim.
The suspect admitted that he committed the stabbing.
The investigation was transferred to the domestic intelligence service under the leadership of a specialized prosecutor, in collaboration with the Swedish police, according to the prosecutor.
When asked by AFP whether the investigation was linked to the suspect’s neo – Nazi sympathies, prosecutors and intelligence officials declined to comment.