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Swedes to face Thai court over knife killing

Two Swedish men arrested in Phuket in Thailand in August 2011 for the killing of a 25-year-old man from the Gothenburg area are set to face court.

Published: 27 October 2012 08:19 CEST

The two men, who were both aged 26-years-old at the time, face charges of conspiracy to murder and possession of a handgun without a permit, as well as a string of other lesser charges, according to the local Phuket News daily.

The two men have previously confessed to the killing of their compatriot, explaining that the attack was in revenge for a business relationship which had turned sour.

The men however deny murder, claiming that they did not intend to kill him, the newspaper reported.

The three men are reported to have been part of a call centre scam operating out of Pattaya.

The 25-year-old apparently fell out with the pair and reported the scam to Pattaya police and then moved to Phuket.

His former business partners tracked him to an apartment building in Koh Kaew and confronted him on the evening of August 1st 2011.

The victim is reported to have returned home at around 8pm and was attacked by the two men who tried to strangle him with a wire, according to local media reports.

The man was then stabbed in the neck and died soon after from his wounds.

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French prosecutor says Paris suburb stabbing treated as suspected terror attack

A police forensic team at the scene of the attack in Villejuif. Photo: Christophe Archambault/AFP

The man killed one person walking with his wife before being shot dead by police.

Police said the man, identified as 22-year-old Nathan C., attacked several people around lunchtime Friday in the suburb of Villejuif and they initially treated the incident as a criminal not terrorist incident.

But in a statement, the French national anti-terrorist investigation body (PNAT) said that while Nathan C. was known to have had psychiatric problems, worrying evidence had also emerged about his conversion to Islam and radicalisation.

“Investigations over the past few hours have allowed us to establish that he was certainly radicalised (and to show)… organised preparation for his move towards the act,” the statement said.

Additionally, they “showed a murderous path, thought out and chosen, of such a nature as to gravely disturb public order by intimidation or terror,” it said.

READ ALSO: Knife attacker kills man in Paris park before being shot dead by police

Earlier a local magistrate told a press conference that Nathan C. had shouted the Muslim invocation “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) during the attack.

Nathan C. converted to Islam in mid-2017 and is believed to have suffered serious psychiatric problems since he was child, with several spells in hospital. In June he stopped receiving the treatment he was being given.

Police found literature characterised as Salafist in a bag after the attack, Philippe Bugeaud of the Paris investigative police told the press conference.

There was also a letter “with phrases fairly typical of a Muslim man who self-flagellates and who knows that he may be about to take the plunge,” Bugeaud added.

Nathan C.'s apartment in Paris also bore “every sign that it was going to be no longer lived in,” magistrate Laure Beccuau said.

Nathan C. apparently spared a first person who said he was a Muslim and had recited a prayer in Arabic, she said.

He then attacked the couple, killing the husband and seriously injuring the wife before wounding a woman jogger in the back. Beccuau said the two women had now left hospital.

France remains on high alert after being hit by a string of attacks by jihadist extremists since 2015, with more than 250 people killed in total.

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