Stockholm
The man charged with stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh to death last fall said this week that Jesus made him do it. Mijailo Mijailovich said that at first he couldn’t recognize the voice in his head that told him to murder the popular politician. “I think it is Jesus,” he told investigators, “that he has chosen me.” Lindh led the campaign for Sweden to adopt the euro as its currency, a bid that failed when a referendum held three days after her murder went the other way. Swedish investigators had initially assumed the murder was related to the euro referendum, but Mijailovich said his compulsion to kill had nothing to do with politics.
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