What was the name of Sweden's Foreign Minister murdered on 11th September 2003?
"in indirect form in the shape of partial tax-exceptions. The Swedish Press is self-regulated through the Public Press Ombudsman, or ""Allmänhetens Pressombudsman"" and the Swedish Press Council, or ""Pressens Opinionsnämnd"". One example of this is that Swedish media follow a principle of not disclosing the identities of suspected criminals. There was some controversy when ""Dagens Nyheter"" on 27 September 2003 published the name and picture of Mijailo Mijailović, who was the suspected assassin of Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh. Freedom of the press in Sweden dates back to 1766 when it was enshrined in a law enacted by the Riksdag"
"on him. In April, the same year, he threatened a young girl and her mother. On the afternoon of 10 September 2003, Mijailo Mijailović attacked Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, while she was shopping in the ladies' department at the NK department store in central Stockholm. Lindh was stabbed in her chest, stomach and arms. The minister was rushed to a hospital and underwent extensive surgery, but died the following morning. Mijailović was able to flee the scene after the crime, but was arrested two weeks later with the help of surveillance photos from the department store. Swedish"
"Mijailo Mijailović Mijailo Mijailović (; born 6 December 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden) is the self-confessed and convicted assassin of the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, whom he stabbed on 10 September 2003 at the NK department store in Stockholm. Lindh died early the following day after unsuccessful surgical treatment to try to save her life. Mijailo was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 6 December 1978 to Serbian parents from the town of Mladenovac. His parents immigrated to Sweden in the late 1960s as foreign workers. When he was 6 years old, he was sent to live with his"
"constituency for over 20 years). The couple had two sons, Filip and David. On 16:00 10 September 2003, while shopping in the ladies' section of the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in central Stockholm for a televised debate later that night on the referendum about Sweden's adoption of the euro, Lindh was stabbed in the chest, abdomen and arms. At the time, she was not protected by bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service; this proved controversial, given the similarity between Lindh's murder and that of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986 (the first murder of a government member in modern Swedish"
"where Anna Lindh, the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, held her last public speech before she was murdered on September 10, 2003. In 2004, a memorial monument to Anna Lindh was erected at the square. Near the square is a metro station of the same name. The station was opened as an underground tram station in 1933, and was converted for the new metro system in 1950 as one of the first stations on the network. The original exits did not open onto the square, but to the nearby street Folkungagatan. In 1995, another exit was built in Björns Trädgård"
"2010 Stockholm bombings On 11 December 2010, two bombs exploded in central Stockholm, killing the bomber. Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt and the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) described the bombings as acts of terrorism. Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, an Iraqi-born Swedish citizen, is suspected of carrying out the bombing. According to investigations by FBI, the bombing would likely have killed between 30 and 40 people had it succeeded, and it is thought that al-Abdaly operated with a network. The first explosion occurred at 16:48 CET, when an Audi 80 Avant automobile exploded at the intersection of Olof Palmes gata"
"world at this time. In 2003, Sveriges Television showed a documentary film about the case by filmmaker Oscar Hedin. In the film, titled ""I nationens intresse"" (""In the Interest of the Nation""), an Iranian intelligence officer named Reza Taslimi was identified as the probable assassin. The Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) was severely criticised for having obstructed the criminal investigation carried out by the local Swedish police by withholding important information. For example, it was alleged that Taslimi had been identified by a taxi driver, who had driven him from Nynäshamn to Stockholm the day after the murder. However, this information"
"at a hospital. In the same restaurant a meeting was scheduled of Ingvar Carlsson, a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Mona Sahlin, the secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and Pierre Schori, the former Swedish State Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Due to a telephone call to Ingvar Carlsson from Carl Bildt, the then-current Prime Minister of Sweden, who urged Carlsson to immediately return to Sweden due to the alleged urgent state of the Swedish economy, all three flew back to Sweden the same day and thus probably escaped being assassinated as"
"place on 19 June 2010 in Stockholm. On 11 August 2009, her sister, Princess Madeleine, announced her engagement to Jonas Bergström. On December 11, 2010, the Swedish capital of Stockholm was attacked by a suicide bomber, killing himself and injuring two others. Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt described the event as the ""Most worrying attempt at terrorist attack in crowded part of central Stockholm. Failed — but could have been truly catastrophic."" Although Swedish citizens of foreign background have committed suicide attacks abroad, this was the first time such an incident took place on Swedish ground. The incident is"
"Lemberg and Karl Bergman were killed in Uganda. At the time, Sweden's Prime Minister Göran Persson responded to Strömberg's murder. Former TV4 coworkers Johan Freduksion and Marlin Gustafsson displayed a handwritten sign on the glass doors of the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul reading ""Bad News"" shortly after Strömberg's death. The TV4 staff were gathered for an emergency meeting to hear the announcements of Strömberg's murder. In 2002, UNESCO named Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi a laureate, and it also named honorable mentions, including Ulf Strömberg and other journalists who had been killed in Afghanistan while reporting. Ulf Strömberg Ulf Strömberg,"
"evening on the 10th through the 11th to help the public-service channels of SVT report news. TV3 merged its programming with ZTV and TV8, airing ""Efterlyst"" (a programme similar to ""America's Most Wanted"") for people to send information directly to the police to help find the murderer. All campaign advertising on billboards was removed and advertising in printed media cancelled. The murder was seen as an attack on Sweden's open society, requiring unity rather than political campaigning. Following a midday meeting on 12 September, by Prime Minister Göran Persson and the leaders of the other political parties in the Riksdag,"
"figure promoting the European Union in Sweden—was assassinated in public in Stockholm. As Lindh was to succeed Göran Persson in the party leadership, her death was deeply disruptive to the party as well as to the campaign to promote the adoption of the EMU (euro) in Sweden. The neutrality policy has changed with the contemporary ascendance of the center-right coalition, and Sweden has committed troops to support the US and UK's interventions in Afghanistan. Under Social Democratic governance relatively strong overseas humanitarian programs and a comparatively well-developed refugee program have been implemented, and frequently reformed. Because the Rehn-Meidner model allowed"
"Von Sydow murders The von Sydow murders, one of Sweden's most notorious criminal cases, occurred on 7 March 1932 in Stockholm. On the night of 7 March 1932, Swedish politician Hjalmar von Sydow, his cook Karoline Herou, and his maid Ebba Hamn were all found beaten to death at von Sydow's home at Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm. The bodies of von Sydow and Herou were found in Herou's room; Hamn lay dead in von Sydow's room. From the outset, it was presumed the murder weapon was an iron pipe, bought the day before the murders by von Sydow's son, Fredrik"
"Jan O. Karlsson Jan Olov Karlsson (1 June 1939 – 19 September 2016) was a Swedish politician; former Minister for Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy (2002-2003) and acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (11 September-10 October 2003), following the murder of Anna Lindh. He also served as President of the European Court of Auditors. Jan O. Karlsson studied economics, political science and history at Stockholm University, before becoming an undersecretary at the Ministry of Agriculture in 1962. In 1968 he transferred to the Office of the Prime Minister where he worked as an advisor. From 1973 he served as secretary"
"more than ten years, making him the second-longest continuously-governing prime minister of Sweden second to Tage Erlander. He is known for his oratorical prowess, often dispensing with prepared speeches or preparing them without the aid of his staff. During his time, he has faced several shocking incidents, such as the Gothenburg riots in 2001, the 2003 murder of the minister of foreign affairs, Anna Lindh, the tsunami disaster in 2004, and the conflict over the publication of satirical Muhammed cartoons in Danish newspapers, leading to threats of violence against Scandinavians and burning of embassies in the Middle East and the"
"close to the most conservative of the cabinet members. In the Swedish television movie ""Four Days that shook Sweden - The Midsummer Crisis 1941"" (Sveriges Television TV1, from 1988), he is played by Swedish character actor Sven Lindberg. Christian Günther Christian Ernst Günther (5 December 1886, in Stockholm – 6 March 1966) was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Hansson III Cabinet. This unity government was formed after the Soviet attack on Finland in November 1939 (→ Winter War) and was dissolved 31 July 1945. Günther, whose father had been Swedish diplomat, and whose grandfather briefly had been prime"
"Bo Holmström Bo Eric Holmström, (18 October 1938 – 12 October 2017) was a Swedish journalist, reporter and author. He worked as a reporter both for SVT and TV4. He was the Swedish reporter covering the Norrmalmstorg robbery in 1973 and the West German Embassy siege in 1975. On 11 September 2003 he was the first reporter to announce in media that Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had died from injuries sustained after an attack earlier that same day. He was reporting from Karolinska hospital for TV4. In 2007 he was awarded the Stora journalistpriset for his journalism work. In"
"Sandström, following the revelation of the Ebbe Carlsson affair in 1988. The Swedish Security Service was established on 1 October 1989, on the recommendations put forward by a Government committee tasked with evaluating the Department of Security following the assassination of Palme. The new agency was—although still formally a part of the National Police Board—more independent, with its own Director-General and political oversight also increased. Furthermore, the Service took over the formal responsibility for all close protection tasks, which was previously shared with the National Police Board and the Stockholm County Police. On 10 September 2003, Minister for Foreign Affairs"
"The Lille European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL) named its second year after Anna Lindh. Anna Lindh Ylva Anna Maria Lindh (19 June 1957 – 11 September 2003) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2003 and Minister for the Environment from 1994 to 1996. She served as a Member of the Riksdag (MP) for Södermanland County from 1982 to 1985 and 1998 to 2003. Lindh was born to Staffan (1931-2017) and Nancy Lindh (1932-2005), in Enskede-Årsta, a suburb southeast of Stockholm, but grew up in Enköping. She became"
"a microphone attached to his jacket) ""now we better see an end to these gay issues"" (""nu får det väl vara slut på de här bögfrågorna"") during a SIDA conference – he was able to maintain the trust of prime minister Göran Persson and keep his place in the Cabinet. His appointment as acting Minister for Foreign Affairs following the death of Anna Lindh on 11 September 2003, was a short term solution. Changes in government, effective on 10 October, forced him to resign his post. Jan O. Karlsson Jan Olov Karlsson (1 June 1939 – 19 September 2016) was"
"couple was attacked by a lone gunman. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme. Police said that a taxi driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm, and two girls in a nearby car tried to assist. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at 00:06 CET on 1 March 1986. The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan. Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister and as new leader of the Social Democratic Party. Palme's decision to visit the Grand"
"Victor Gunnarsson Victor Gunnarsson (1953, Jämjö – between 3 and 4 December 1993) was a Swedish right-wing activist, who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. He immigrated to the United States, and was later murdered in 1993 in North Carolina by former police officer Lamont C. Underwood as part of a love triangle. Gunnarsson (labeled in the media ""33-åringen"", ""the 33-year-old"") was an early suspect for the assassination of Olof Palme on the late evening of 28 February 1986, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was taken in for questioning a first time on 8 March,"
"after Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was shot to death re-emerged. The blurry images appear to show a man similar to Eugene de Kock, which is notable as de Kock himself claimed the South African security services were involved in the assassination. His lawyer has strongly denied that de Kock was in Sweden at that time or that he has ever visited Sweden. (South African spy Craig Williamson was present in Stockholm at the time of the assassination, however, possibly to surveil an ANC conference held in Stockholm.) Eugene de Kock Eugene Alexander de Kock (born 29 January 1949) is"
"to say anything to Lindh's children, stating that ""You can't commit a murder and then just say you are sorry"". Mijailović said he realizes that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars being ""Sweden's most hated man"". In ""Expressen""'s article, the prosecutor in the case, Krister Petersson, confirms that the information Mijailović provides in the interview is the same as that he recently gave to investigators. The prosecutor deems Mijailović's new information as credible. Mijailo Mijailović Mijailo Mijailović (; born 6 December 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden) is the self-confessed and convicted assassin of the Swedish Minister for"
"Ebbe Carlsson affair The Ebbe Carlsson scandal () was a major political scandal in Sweden occurring during mid-1988. The affair came to public knowledge on 1 June 1988, when the evening newspaper ""Expressen"" revealed that Ebbe Carlsson, a journalist and publisher and former secretary at the Swedish Government, was carrying out an independent and illegal investigation into the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme, secretly supported by the minister for justice Anna-Greta Leijon. The scandal forced Anna-Greta Leijon to resign a week later, and was finally concluded with Ebbe Carlsson, by then dying with AIDS, being fined for smuggling in"
"Assassination of Olof Palme On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time. Christer Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, on appeal to Svea Court of Appeal he was acquitted. A"
"Hans Blix (born 1928), who was Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency 1981–1997, of the UNMOVIC 2000–2003, and previously Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1978–1979. Hammarskjöld and Blix both graduated from the Uppsala Faculty of Law, as did the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003. Most Swedish clergymen, including most bishops and archbishops, have been educated at the university, including, in more recent times, Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931), Professor of the History of Religions in the Faculty of Theology, later Archbishop of Uppsala, and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930 for his work"
"Lisbeth Palme Anna Lisbeth Christina Palme, née Beck-Friis (also sometimes spelled Lisbet Palme, 14 March 1931 – 18 October 2018), was a Swedish children's psychologist, UNICEF chairwoman and the widow of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, who was assassinated in 1986. Anna Lisbeth Christina Beck-Friis was born to civil engineer and freiherr Christian Beck-Friis and his wife Anna-Lisa. After graduating from the ""Nya Elementarskolan för flickor"" (New Elementary School for Girls) in Stockholm in 1950, she studied and graduated from Stockholm University in the summer of 1955. Palme worked as a children's psychologist and was during a period of time"
"Party, which he held until 1996. Two years later, Christer Pettersson (d. 2004), a small-time criminal and drug addict, was convicted of Palme's murder, but his conviction was overturned. The crime remains unsolved. Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician and statesman. A longtime protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from"
"Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures The Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures is a network of civil society organisations dedicated to promoting intercultural dialogue in the Mediterranean region. It was set up in 2005 by the governments of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Euromed), a political agreement made in 1995 between the European Union and Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Syria and Turkey. It is named in honour of Anna Lindh, the Swedish Foreign Minister who was murdered in 2003. The name was put forward by Egypt at a meeting 25 September"
"commemorative gatherings were held for Lindh throughout Sweden and abroad (through the Church of Sweden Abroad) on 12 and 13 September. One gathering, in the centre of Stockholm, attracted tens of thousands of mourners. A more formal commemoration was held at Stockholm City Hall on 19 September, at which Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf, Prime Minister Göran Persson, Chris Patten, Margot Wallström, European commissioners and the Swedish-speaking Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou spoke. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was unable to attend due to travel difficulties, but sent condolences. Lindh was buried privately on 20 September from the Church of"
"bomb was addressed to her husband. The Iranian government was quickly suspected by many of having ordered the assassination, which had many similarities to other assassinations and assassination attempts of Iranian political exiles around the world at this time. However, a few years after the assassination, the Swedish police closed the investigation citing lack of evidence. Thousands of people showed up at the funeral in Västerås, many of them from abroad. Among the speakers at the funeral was C.-H. Hermansson, former leader of the Swedish Left Party. Efat Ghazi Efat Ghazi (, born 2 November 1935 – died 6 September"
"prohibited and that it is not permissible to oppress, harm or intimidate others."" After the press release was issued, the attack was condemned during Friday prayers at the Stockholm Mosque. Alexandra Brunell, secretary for Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson reacted to the event by tweeting ""Äntligen"" (""Finally"") while another SD politician, member of parliament William Petzäll posted ""I hate to say it, but didn´t we say so?"" 2010 Stockholm bombings On 11 December 2010, two bombs exploded in central Stockholm, killing the bomber. Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt and the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) described the bombings"