It was in the afternoon of March 3 that seven men were attacked with a knife on the open street in Vetlanda.
The 22-year-old man who is suspected was shot in the leg by police and arrested.
According to witnesses that SVT Jönköping spoke to, he had a knife in his hand which he then dropped.
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The shop owner Åsa Carlqvist in Vetlanda helped one of the victims who stumbled into her shop.
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After a so-called section 7 examination, it was concluded that he could have suffered from a serious mental disorder at the time of the attacks and that there are reasons for the man to undergo a forensic psychiatric examination.
All the attacked men survived.
Hope to get answers to questions
Many Vetlanda residents that SVT spoke to in the weeks after the attack have asked themselves why it happened.
One of them is the chairman of the municipal board, Henrik Tvarnö (S), who hopes that the district court hearing will now provide answers to many questions.
- Well, that is what one hopes for when the investigation is finished, that we find out a little more why it happened, Tvarnö said some time after the act.
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Maria Oskarsson and Karolina Martinsson arranged a light demonstration to pay tribute to the victims of Wednesday's act in Vetlanda Photo: Oskar Jönsson / SVT