– I’m fighting for life and death, like, if I don’t win this match against him here and now, I’ll die, I won’t come home, he says in an interrogation a couple of days after the incident.
Realize it’s serious
At the same time, his colleague is lying on a bike path nearby, blood pulsating from his armpit. He says that when he is stabbed by the sword, he quickly realizes that the situation is serious:
– Then I was fully focused on me, on surviving, because I realize that this is not good. I felt like I’m not going to die here.
Damages the lung
The stab goes through the arm into the armpit and injures the lung. He is losing large amounts of blood and the condition is life threatening. After an emergency operation at Ryhov county hospital, he is flown later in the evening to the university hospital in Linköping. The following day it is reported that the situation is still serious, but stable.
The accused man has told in questioning that at first he was not sure that they were real police. He also says he did not stab the policeman or come close to stabbing the other.
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Police seriously injured during operation in Jönköping. This has happened. Photo: TT