The only suspect in the April 2017 attack has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges at his start of his trial. An Uzbek asylum seeker has pleaded guilty to charges of terrorism for a truck attack that killed five people in Stockholm last year. Ihrman said he wanted the suspect, 39-year-old Rakhmat A, to be deported from Sweden after serving any sentence handed down. Pre-attack planningThe charge sheet states the suspect wanted to “create fear in the population” and accuses him of planning the attack, stating he visited several locations in central Stockholm in advance of the assault. The 39-year-old suspect had previously admitted to carrying out the fatal attack and had been remanded in pre-trial detention since the incident.

Source: Egypt Independent February 13, 2018 10:47 UTC