Reply #4: I read Dagens Nyheter [View All]

[oldshoe]

Sweden's main paper this morning. The police were reported to say that the stabbing seem planned, and that the guy who did it knew what he was doing (ie, how to efficiently stab). He even walked away from the victim until someone shouted to grab him.

Anna Lindh has been a very prominent Social Democrat and was being talked about as a real candidate to becoming either Prime Minister or being one of the EU's top directors under its new constitution.

She was a wonderfully articulate, caring person and is survived by husband and two children. She did not have a body guard. Very few politicains use body guards as they still want to hope that such are a sign of social decay.

She has been campaigning for the introduction of the Euro as currency in replacement of the Kroner.

The killer has not been apprehended, although they have a description of the person. It is too early to tell if this was a political murder, or a nutcase with fringe political ideas, or none at all and just after a celebrity.

This follows the murder of Olaf Palme a decade and a half ago, he too without a body guard that day, and his murderer also unresolved.

The referendum on the Euro is this Sunday, and all campaigning from both sides has been suspended.