Lindh suspect formally charged
2004-01-12 10:41
Stockholm, Sweden - Prosecutors on Monday filed murder charges against the man who confessed to fatally stabbing Foreign Minister Anna Lindh last year.
Mijailovic, 25, confessed last week to the September 10 attack on Lindh with a knife in a Stockholm department store. Doctors worked through the night to save her, but The 46-year-old politician died the following day, plunging the country into a state of shock and mourning.
Mijailovic's confession came after nearly four months of denials. His lawyer, Peter Althin, said the attack was random and not politically motivated.
A trial is expected to start on Wednesday after lawyers said last week they wouldn't seek a pretrial psychiatric examination of Mijailovic.
Mijailovic could be sentenced to between 10 years and life in prison, or to a mental hospital if found not mentally competent.
Sweden, like other European Union countries, does not have capital punishment.
- AP