Peter Madsen, inventor and owner of the private submarine the Nautilus, is suspected of having killed a journalist who was reporting on him.

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For the first time, Dane Peter Madsen, sentenced to life for the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall in his home-made submarine, admitted his guilt in a documentary broadcast on Wednesday.

Asked over the phone by a journalist asking him if he killed the young woman, the 49-year-old inventor replied "yes".

"Apart from August 10, 2017, I never did anything to anyone"

"There is only one culprit and it is me," said Peter Madsen, convicted in April 2018 for his premeditated murder, preceded by sexual violence.

On the evening of August 10, 2017, the 30-year-old journalist boarded the Nautilus with Peter Madsen, the designer and owner of the submersible.

She wanted to portray this self-taught engineer obsessed with the conquest of seas and space.

Kim Wall was reported missing overnight by her companion and her body was later found at sea, dismembered.

“Other than August 10, 2017, I never did anything to anyone,” said Peter Madsen.

Conversations recorded without his knowledge

During the trial, he admitted to having cut the lifeless body of the young woman before throwing her in the Baltic but maintained that her death was accidental.

This admission does not lift all the veil on the exact circumstances of Kim Wall's death.

The documentary series, entitled "Secret Recordings with Peter Madsen", of which only the first episode was broadcast, is based on more than 20 hours of telephone conversation between a journalist and the assassin, recorded without the latter's knowledge.

He then gave his authorization for their use.

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