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Agence France-Presse

A 39-year-old Uzbek national suspected of mowing down a crowd of people on a busy Stockholm street in a stolen truck on Tuesday admitted committing “a terrorist crime,” his lawyer said.
Rakhmat “Akilov confesses to a terrorist crime and accepts his custody detention”, his lawyer Johan Eriksson told a court custody hearing in Stockholm.
Stockholm truck attack suspect an Islamic State sympathiser who ‘partied and drank’: media
Four people were killed and 15 others were injured in the attack on Friday.
Appearing in the heavily guarded Stockholm District Court wearing a thick green hoodie and holding his head down, Akilov was known to have shown interest in jihadist organisations according to the police.

After Eriksson’s statement, the rest of the hearing was held behind closed doors at the request of the public prosecutor’s office and journalists were told to wait outside.
The announcement came one day after the suspect had demanded that his state-appointed lawyer be replaced with a Sunni Muslim – a request that was refused.
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Akilov, a construction worker who had been refused permanent residency in Sweden, was arrested several hours after the attack. He was detained in Marsta, a suburb north of Stockholm.
He had gone underground after his application for Swedish residency was rejected last year, police said.


Stockholm truck attack suspect ‘confesses to terrorist crime’

A man who is wanted in connection with the truck incident that killed and injured several people in Stockholm, Sweden, is seen in this handout picture provided by the police. Photo: Reuters

epa05896023 Tow trucks move the beer truck that crashed into the Ahlens department store after plowing down Drottninggatan Street in central Stockholm, Sweden, 07 April 2017. Four people were killed and 15 injured in the suspected terror attack. EPA/FREDRIK SANDBERG SWEDEN OUT

Stockholm truck attack suspect an Islamic State sympathiser who ‘partied and drank’: media

A view of the site where a truck drove into a crowd and into a department store in central Stockholm, Sweden, on Friday. Photo: Reuters

Police cordon off the truck which crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, April 7, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Jonathan NACKSTRAND / ALTERNATIVE CROP

Thousands of people attends a "Lovefest" vigil against terrorism in Sergels Torg, central Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, April 9, 2017. A hijacked truck was driven into a crowd of pedestrians and crashed into the department store on Friday in the Swedish capital. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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