Fatal Stabbing at Sweden Annual Event Now Labeled as Terror

Fatal Stabbing at Sweden Annual Event Now Labeled as Terror
Police arrest a man (C hidden) suspected of seriously injuring by stabbing a woman at the Almedalen political festival in Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland on July 6, 2022. Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images
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STOCKHOLM—The killing of a woman at an annual political event in Sweden earlier this month is now being investigated as an act of terror, authorities said.

Sweden’s domestic security agency, known by its acronym SAPO, said that the 32-year-old man who is in custody over the July 6 knife attack is now suspected of “terrorist crimes through murder,” meaning SAPO has now taken over the investigation.