The police is having a press conference at the moment. Below are some stuff from the live broadcast. (Beware of grammatical and other errors; I type this as it happens.)
People from several branches are there; ordinary police, security police, prosecutor &c.
The forensic lab in Linköping is working closely on the material collected so far.
The police will stage press conferences at 3 pm the coming days.
The police is thankful for the amount of statements sent to them (they operate a telephone number).
A number of witnesses are being interviewed. The forensic lab is studying the knife and other artifacts but no final analysis is ready, yet. They are looking for DNA and fingerprint evidence.
They seem to think a lone guy did it.
The secret police (in charge of politicians’ security) defends their assessment of there being no security threat to minister Lindh.
They don’t want to say yet where they found the clothes.
The surveillance cameras looks unpromising; they are “direct surveillance” and do not tape the sceneries.
Danish journalist asks about why the Danish police did not get the information on the suspect’s appearance.
One journalist wonders how the responsible person (name?) for the protection of politician’s lives could remain on his post.
Nothing points to the fact that the deed was planned in advance.
One hour after the incident, police in other parts of Sweden were not informed. Why? (”No comment”.)
When was the latest threat analysis on minister Lindh performed. (Fuzzy answer.)
The knife: when will analysis be ready. No direct answer, but the police want a transparent media situation.
They do not want to give information on what kind of knife was used.
Why wasn’t the subway closed? “We did not do that interpretation”.
To sum up: I think the police doesn’t seem to have much to go on. They have a knife and some clothes and a lot of witnesses, but at the moment it seems that the police is in the dark. To me it seems the police could have been a bit more quick in closing down the immediate surroundings, closing Stockholm, closing borders &c. Just like when PM Palme was shot in 1986.
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