Lindh murder suspect says Jesus guided him

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The man who has confessed to killing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in September stabbed her several times with a knife, saying Jesus told him to do so, police say.

Mijailo Mijailovic confessed last week to the attack — having denied until then any involvement since his arrest on September 24 — but told prosecutors and his defence lawyer the deed had been unplanned and lacked political motive.

Prosecutors charged the 25-year-old Mijailovic with murder on Monday, saying solid forensic evidence tied him to the murder weapon, a knife with a 10-cm (four-inch) blade, and the victim.

“He says he did not have a political motive and that it happened all of a sudden. That is his version,” Chief Prosecutor Agneta Blidberg told reporters on Monday.

Mijailovic told police he knew who he was stabbing, but that he had had nothing personal against Lindh, a 46-year-old mother of two tipped as Sweden’s next prime minister.

“It was a coincidence that I happened to see her,” he said according to the police hearing protocol. “It could also have been someone else.”

Mijailovic, a high-school drop-out who had sought psychiatric help before the attack, said inner voices had spoken to him in the language of his parents from former Yugoslavia, where he spent part of his childhood and early youth.

“They told me to stab.”

Asked to whom the voices belonged, Mijailovic said: “I think it is Jesus. That he has chosen me.”

Mijailovic goes on trial on Wednesday and faces between 10 years and life in prison if convicted for murder.

Leif Jennekvist, the Stockholm police commissioner who led the murder investigation, told reporters Mijailovic made up his mind to kill Lindh during the approximately 14 minutes from the time he saw her enter the central Stockholm department store on September 10 and the deed.

Linnea Arvidsson, manager of the department store boutique where Lindh was slain, told police she witnessed the attack at close range and heard the assailant say words to the effect of, “You got what you deserved.”

After the stabbing Mijailovic dropped the knife. Police later also found his cap and trousers. Asked what she thought had been the decisive moment in the investigation, Blidberg said: “Maybe when we found Anna Lindh’s blood on his trousers.”

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