2 hours agoFifteen years from the murder of Swedish politician by a Serb supporter NATO bombings against Serbia
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Today it has been 15 years since the murder of former foreign minister of Sweden, Anna Maria Lindh. The first suspicions were that her murder by a Serb had to do with its pro-signing positions against Serbia, Periscopi reports. On September 10, 2003, a member of the Swedish government was hit several times with [...]
On September 10, 2003, a member of the Swedish government was stabbed several times by a Serb at a store in Stockholm.
Lindh had been stabbed in the chest and stomach, while after eight hours of surgery, she had passed away after failing to escape severe wounds caused her.
For her murder, 25-year-old Serbian Mijailo Mijailovic was sentenced to life in prison.
In the court, he had declared that voices within his head had been told to attack Lindhin, who was the prime suspect for the prime minister's post in Sweden.
The investigators' first suspicions had been that her murder was politically motivated, as she had been the most vocal Swedish politician for the euro referendum that was held at the time in Sweden. She insisted that her country join the common European currency.
But the investigation tracks later changed.
It is alleged that, towards her murder, the 25-year-old Serb postponed the pre-signment of NATO bombings against Serbia and the pro-independence positions of Kosovo.
But after eight years, the sentenced for murder had agreed to renegotiate the case from prison.
Later, he denied that he was prompted by former foreign minister's positions for NATO bombings against Serbia.
According to him, it was all coincidence.
I have felt hatred for politicians, both in Sweden and Serbia. They blamed me for all my failures in life”, the 25-year-old Serbian media quoted.
The police had managed to arrest him, two weeks after the attack. In addition to his life sentence, he was obliged to pay 11 thousand pounds for Anna Lindh's husband and her two sons.
Mijailovic, who was the son of Serbian immigrants, had shown how he had been slaughtered several times in a shopping shop. But he had said that he did not intend to kill him.
However, the Court had later ruled that the 25-year-old had committed the murder knowingly, so there was no need for psychiatric care.
And the killer had said that instead of Anna Lindh it could have been someone else.
Lindh had been a most popular and respected politician in the whole country. She had been married and had had had two children, while the foreign minister's post took her in 1998, following an excellent political career she had had as part of the Social Democrat Party. /Periscopi
