The swordsman denies any crime – “Hasn’t hurt anyone”

Today’s hearing began with the court hearing the alarm call that was the start of the intervention, which ended with a policeman being life-threateningly injured.

A neighbor called 112 and said that the 35-year-old shouted “sieg heil” and that he was going to “kill them”.

Police seriously injured during intervention in Jönköping

  • The colleague after the police attack: “The mental preparation for the unexpected has increased”

  • Both police officers in Jönköping feared for their lives – told in interrogation

  • – Sometimes it’s better and sometimes it’s worse (with the 35-year-old, editor’s note). Now it has been really worse, you could say, says the neighbor in the emergency call.

    Here you can read how the intervention took place.

    Was flown by helicopter to Linköping

    Both police officers are in the courtroom. They sit opposite the 35-year-old and his lawyer. The policeman, who received life-threatening injuries, was operated on for almost four hours in Jönköping before he was transferred to the University Hospital in Linköping by helicopter. The court certificate shows that he was life-threateningly injured.

    Looking down at the table

    The 35-year-old man sits looking down at the table most of the time, but looks up when prosecutor Emma Harrius shows pictures of his home and the route he and the police took that day and when she goes through all the swords and knives that were found in his apartment and in the backpack he had with him.

    In an earlier statement from the health department, he is said to have said that he could kill 13 police officers.

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    Police seriously injured during operation in Jönköping. This has happened. Photo: TT

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