Stockholm
The man who stabbed Foreign Minister Anna Lindh to death in a shopping mall last week left behind a baseball cap bearing traces of his DNA, police said this week. Store security cameras captured images of the man, who witnesses said stabbed the popular 46-year-old mother of two repeatedly and left her lying in a pool of blood. The photos show a 30-ish, Swedish-looking man with acne and shoulder-length hair, wearing a gray Nike sweatshirt. Lindh, a Social Democrat, was killed just days before Sweden voted on whether to adopt the common European currency. She was a vocal supporter of the euro and had received vicious hate mail from euro opponents. It’s unknown, though, whether her murder was connected to the issue. Sweden has decided to keep its own currency, the krona.
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