Swedish Man Found Guilty of Murder, Planning to Kill Politician

Swedish Man Found Guilty of Murder, Planning to Kill Politician
Police officers escort the apprehended male suspect after a woman was seriously injured in a stabbing at the Almedalen political festival at Visby on Gotland island, Sweden, on July 6, 2022. TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery via Reuters
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STOCKHOLM—A Swedish court on Tuesday found a man guilty of murdering a woman and of planning to kill a senior politician at a festival in July, and ordered that he be taken into psychiatric care.

The 33-year-old Swede was arrested on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland moments after he had stabbed to death a prominent psychiatrist in a crowded square during Sweden’s annual Almedalen Week political festival.