Mijailo Mijailović

Mijailo Mijailović (Serbian: Мијаило Мијаиловић; born 6 December 1978) 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.

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.

His motive was not considered political, although Mijailović shortly after his arrest was identified on a photograph as standing in the front row of a crowd adhering to then–Liberal People's Party chairman Lars Leijonborg delivering a speech.

[2] On 6 January 2004, after being presented with the evidence against him, Mijailović confessed to the police that he had stabbed Anna Lindh, without the intention to kill her.

However, on 8 July, an appeals court overturned that sentence after tests had concluded that he was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the killing.

Mijailović was for some time a citizen of both Serbia and Montenegro and Sweden but after the crime applied to have his Swedish citizenship revoked.

[4][5] Mijailović explains in the interview that the murder was motivated by his hatred of politicians, whom he considered responsible for his hopeless life situation and the fact that he was a "man without a future".

Mijailović also revealed in the interview that he had wanted to attack the politician Lars Leijonborg the day before the murder of Lindh (see above), but that he did not have his knife with him at the time.