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Man charged with terrorist crime for Swedish politics festival murder

Swedish prosecutors on Tuesday indicted a man suspected of murdering a woman and planning to kill a senior politician in July with "terrorist crime through murder", and "preparation of terrorist crime through the preparation of murder".

The 33-year-old was arrested on site at the time after a woman was stabbed to death in a crowded square in Visby on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland during the annual Swedish political Almedalen Week festival, also known as Politicians' Week in Visby.

The woman, a prominent professional within Swedish psychiatry, was stabbed near where Centre party leader Annie Loof had been due to hold a news conference.

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