Swedish foreign minister stabbed by knife

[Buck Birdseed]

The police profiler dude thinks the man was mentally disturbed (duh!) and was doing his daily shoplifting round at NK when he ran into Lindh.

[Winston]

Or he might just have been a disgruntled militant leftist who opposed the single currency.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Winston
Or he might just have been a disgruntled militant leftist who opposed the single currency.

Who just happened to shoplift a knife in the tool shop across the street and had the military knowledge to rotate the knife inside the belly to make maximal harm, then make sure that the knife had no traces of him when he dropped it. I'm really confused. I hope they find his DNA on the clothing at least.

[Winston]

At this point, the information from the police and media on the circumstances surrounding all this are a bit sketchy for lack of a better word. You hear one thing today, another thing tomorrow.

What can't be argued much however is who had the bigger motive to kill her...

[Chemical Ollie]

Who had a big motive to kill her? I can't see anybody, not even the ultra anti-€ crowd.

[Winston]

You'd be surprised at the hatred flowing from that camp. Police had to draw their weapons and fire 103 shots to defend themselves after a referendum we had in 1993.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Winston
Or he might just have been a disgruntled militant leftist who opposed the single currency.

A detail that speaks against that is the rotation of the knife. Only someone interested in military stuff would know such a thing, and leftists couldn't care less.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Winston
You'd be surprised at the hatred flowing from that camp. Police had to draw their weapons and fire 103 shots to defend themselves after a referendum we had in 1993.

You don't have politicians like Anna Lindh. But after the 2001 riots. I know what you mean.

[Winston]

I'm not sure how to reply to your remark that we don't have politicians like Anna Lindh.

So I guess I won't.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
A detail that speaks against that is the rotation of the knife. Only someone interested in military stuff would know such a thing, and leftists couldn't care less.

We have ouur *******s too. In the militant / anarchistic fringe, many clueless people find a moral justification to exert their passion for violence

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie

A detail that speaks against that is the rotation of the knife. Only someone interested in military stuff would know such a thing, and leftists couldn't care less.

Someone generally interested in killing people would probably be quite aware of this too, regardless of political or military interests. You know, there are plenty of "informative" books on how to kill/torture people available.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Here's our guy. The police has reversed from the street-junkie theory, he might be anybody.

His long hair is not what you would expect for a neo-nazi skinhead, but he could be an ex-skin who have grown his hair now that he has grown older. The hooded jacket is popular among anarchists and ultra-commies, but the Nike logo printed on it speaks against that. On the other hand, those punks are often contradictionary in the sense that they talk the talk but don't walk the walk.

A disturbing detail is that a knife of the type that was used in the assault was stolen from the Claes Olsson store right across the street the same afternoon. There just seem to be some co-incidences to support the conspiration theory.

What's with the pixelation in the photo?

[Combat Ingrid]

They don't want to show a clear picture of his face until they have found all the main witnesses.

[Ambro2000]

The police didn't even want to show the pic at all. But media got hold of it somehow.

[Monk]

Winston,

Why would any euro opposer be stupid enough to pull this stunt? The death of Anna Lindh became the tie-breaker reason the Swedes are going to approve the euro tonight. It's cynicism at its best, but if the euro opposers wanted to achieve something through violent means they should have killed off that Maud thing.

On a related note, what the hell is the Swedish media thinking putting a nine-minute long pro-Euro monologue by A.L on the air at this point and when both campaigns have been suspended? If what I read is correct it's a dirty trick for sure.