A man carrying a large hunting knife succeeded in entering the Ministry for Employment before being arrested later in central Stockholm, it has been revealed.
Government ministers led the tributes to murdered Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh, three years to the day after she was murdered in a Stockholm department store.
The man who murdered Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh in 2003 has been charged with assaulting a patient at a psychiatric asylum, it has been reported.
If Sweden's security police (Säpo) requests details about patients who have threatened politicians or the royal family, medical and care staff should break their duty of confidentiality and hand over the information.
Mijailo Mijailovic, who last year was found guilty of murdering Sweden's former foreign minister Anna Lindh, is to be transferred out of psychiatric care and back into Kumla prison.
Mijailo Mijailovic, who last year was found guilty of the murder of Sweden's former foreign minister Anna Lindh, has attacked another patient at the secure psychiatric clinic in Sundsvall where he is being treated.
The man responsible for the brutal 2003 murder of Sweden's foreign minister Anna Lindh has been transferred to a psychiatric asylum following the deterioration of his mental health, Swedish public radio reported Saturday.
The Senegalese women's rights group Tostan was on Thursday awarded the second annual 250,000-kronor Anna Lindh Award for its work to help women in the west African nation.
Former foreign minister Anna Lindh approved the deportation of two Egyptians with the help of CIA agents in December 2001. That's the view of Sweden's security police, Säpo, which gave evidence on Tuesday to a constitutional committee set up to investigate the matter.
The threat to famous people in Sweden posed by stalkers is worse than previously thought. That is the conclusion of a survey carried out by Säpo, the security police, and now they have proposed tougher laws to deal with the problem.
Prime Minister Göran Persson has told a senior committee of Swedish MPs that neither the late foreign minister Anna Lindh nor justice minister Thomas Bodström knew that two Egyptian terror suspects were to be deported from Sweden by CIA agents on an American government plane.
A police superintendent has declared that Anna Lindh is the person responsible for the deportation of two Egyptians in December of 2001, reported Svenska Dagbladet on Thursday. The decision was made at a meeting in Anna Lindh's office, the day before the pair were flown out of the country on board a CIA plane.
Mijailo Mijailovic, the man who killed Sweden's foreign minister Anna Lindh in September 2003, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder by the country's Supreme Court.
"If a crime was committed under serious psychosis, the person who committed it cannot be sentenced to prison," wrote Tuesday's Svenska Dagbladet. "But if that person is mentally healthy when judgement is passed, he cannot be give psychiatric treatment."
This week the Swedish Supreme Court is reconsidering the Appeal Court's decision to reduce Mijailo Mijailovic’s life sentence for murder to closed psychiatric care. This will no doubt serve to re-open the debate on a sequence of events in 2003 that shook up the Swedish mental health system.
An unknown man with a 40cm hunting knife gained access to the Moderate Party's 100th anniversary celebration on Saturday night. He was stopped by a doorman just metres from a gathering of senior politicians, including party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt.
'Celebrity lawyer' Peter Althin lost not one but two headline clients this week. Both Mijailo Mijailovic, Anna Lindh’s convicted murderer and Tony Olsson, who in the summer temporarily escaped his life sentence for murder, have sought new counsel.
A fourth policeman has been charged with breaching rules of confidentiality during the search for Anna Lindh's murderer, reported Friday's Dagens Nyheter.
Mijailo Mijailovic, the man convicted of killing Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh last year, has renounced his Swedish citizenship. The news broke just hours after he was admitted to hospital in Stockholm due to fears that he was suicidal.
A Swedish website has been discovered with faked pornographic pictures of Anna Lindh and spoof ads about murder weapons, reported Aftonbladet on Tuesday. The timing of the discovery - in the midst of preparations for the memorial of Lindh's death one year ago - made it particularly disturbing.
At eleven o'clock on Thursday morning the appeal court surprised observers by overturning the sentence of life imprisonment handed down to Mijail Mjailovic, the man who murdered Anna Lindh last September. Instead of jail, the 25 year old will be treated in a secure psychiatric hospital.
Mijailo Mijailovic, the man convicted of murdering the Swedish foreign minister, Anna Lindh, has been appealing against his conviction. Much of the appeal centred on Mijailovic's mental health, and whether he intended to kill Lindh.
"Mona Sahlin Attacked!" screamed Aftonbladet, following the news that the Minister for Democracy and Integration had been "assaulted" during a visit to Norrköping town hall last week.
