STOCKHOLM—A Swedish court on Tuesday found a man guilty of murdering a woman and of planning to kill a senior politician at a festival in July, and ordered that he be taken into psychiatric care.
The 33-year-old Swede was arrested on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland moments after he had stabbed to death a prominent psychiatrist in a crowded square during Sweden’s annual Almedalen Week political festival.
The murder took place close to where Centre Party leader Annie Loof had been due to hold a news conference.
The Gotland district court said the killer, Theodor Engstrom, had mapped Loof’s agenda and was planning to murder her. It said this amounted to preparation of a terrorist crime….