Man charged with terrorism had more targets than the psychiatrist he killed – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

The 32-year-old Theodor Engström has admitted that he stabbed and killed Wieselgren in Visby on Gotland, on 6 July. That’s what his defender says. On Monday, it became known that the murder is being investigated as terrorism. Wieselgren participated in the annual Almedals week when she was killed. Representatives of the political parties in Sweden meet there and discuss politics. She worked as a national coordinator for psychiatric issues in SKR, the member and employer organization for Swedish municipalities and regions. Theodor Engström was arrested just after the stabbing. Photo: Henrik Montgomery / TT NYHETSBYRÅN / NTB Theodor Engström has for several years been active in the neo-Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR), several Swedish media report. He has written articles in NMR’s online newspaper and has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and denied that the Holocaust took place. – Several planned goals On Friday, Public Prosecutor Henrik Olin downplays the man’s connection to NMR, but not the terror aspect. – The terrorist crime is not only aimed at the victim, but also at the state of Sweden, he says according to Expressen. – There are other planned targets on the part of the perpetrator. Who and which can I not go into, he says. Last week, the police said that they had been informed that the perpetrator was suffering from mental illness and that he had committed the act under the influence of drugs. Theodor Engstrôm is said to have stayed on Gotland for several days before the murder. Does not increase preparedness Swedish police do not think Engström has cooperated with anyone. – It is clear that we always keep it open, but everything points to him acting on his own, the public prosecutor says. The police have not raised the level of security. It has already been at an elevated level since 2010, press spokesman Gabriel Wernstedt in the Swedish security police Säpo informs Sveriges Television. Säpo is investigating the case under the leadership of the prosecutor at the National Unit for Security Matters, in close cooperation with the police.



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