Mijailo Mijailovic
| Mijailo Mijailović | |
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Surveillance photo of Mijailović at crime scene
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| Born |
6 December 1978 , Sweden |
| Nationality | Serbian, formerly also Swedish (renounced) |
| Criminal charge | murder |
| Criminal penalty | life imprisonment |
| Criminal status | Imprisoned at Tidaholmsanstalten |
Mijailo Mijailović (Serbian: Мијаило Мијаиловић ; born 6 December 1978 in , 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 during the arbetskraftsinvandring (see related gastarbeiter). When he was 6 years old, he was sent to live with his paternal grandparents in Serbia, where he went to school. He returned to Sweden when the Yugoslav wars began. He finished school in 1995, with a grade point average of 3.4 (out of a possible 5.0). He enrolled in Swedish high school but dropped out in the second grade, his school mates remember him as a lone wolf.
In 1997, at 18 years old, he stabbed his father and was convicted of aggravated assault. His father was an alcoholic, and often assaulted Mijailo's mother and the children.
In June 1999, he was convicted of holding illegal arms; he had a knife 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 . 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.
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