Strong feelings in Linköping after the recognition: "I started crying"

A 37-year-old man is now arrested for probable cause, the higher degree of suspicion, suspected of the 2004 double murder in Linköping when Anna-Lena Svensson and Mohammed Ammouri were killed. Today's message has stirred up many feelings in Linköping.

- It was really all emotions at once and all the wounds were torn back, at the same time as I became very happy and very relieved. We sat at a municipal council meeting when we got the flash that he acknowledged and then I could not hold back. I started crying during the meeting. I don't think people understand what this trauma has been all year, ”says Muharrem Demirok (C), municipal council in Linköping.

Muharrem Demirok describes the sixteen year old double murder as a life-long wound.

- The families will not get their loved ones back. It is a lifelong wound, but hopefully they will have an end now and can begin to heal. This is a wound that the families have shared with all of us in Linköping, a collective wound that we can now heal together, he says.

Niklas Borg (M), the municipal council, is also relieved by today's message.

- It is very welcome and I am actually very happy that this is now getting its solution, both for the Linköpingsborn's sake and for the relatives of the victims. I think many people had given up that we should ever see a solution to this. But it feels fantastic that it now seems like we are getting it, he says.

Kristina Edlund (S), she is also happy that the double murder now looks to get her solution.

- I am both happy and relieved for the sake of the relatives who have had to wait 16 years for this. I was teary eyed when I read my dad's first comments. It feels like justice has finally come, she says.

She believes that it means a lot to Linköping that the case now seems to have got its solution.

- I myself remember this day and there are probably many Linköpings residents who have thought about this situation and many people probably feel the same feelings as me and give a lot of thoughts to the relatives who were affected. It feels good today, says Kristina Edlind.