It was on March 11, 1995, that the brutal assault happened when Peter Karlsson was on his way home from the pub. The VIK player was stabbed with 64 chops and bleed on the site.
The hockey murder shook all of Sweden. In Västerås, a manifestation was organized against the violence where 20,000 people joined. 30 years later, a new anti -violence manifestation will soon take place.
Extended legal process
The 19-year-old man who was arrested and acknowledged the deed had several violent crimes in the baggage and was open with his neo-Nazi sympathies.
The prosecutor claimed murder and said it was the 19-year-old’s hatred of gays that made him take to the knife.
“I’ve always had the attitude that homosexuals should be sent off to a deserted island. And let them keep themselves there,” said the 19-year-old in an interview with SVT.
However, it became a long legal process that went all the way to the Supreme Court-where the 19-year-old was sentenced only for murder and received eight years in prison.
In the clip, we depict the event through glazing in SVT’s archive.