The statement after the forensic psychiatric examination means that it may be relevant with imprisonment for the man.
- It was as if the brain stopped working.
I felt very bad mentally, he said himself when he was heard in the district court in early June.
But in the forensic psychiatric statement that came on Thursday, it says that the man did not commit the act under the influence of a serious mental disorder.
In the closing argument in the trial, the prosecutors argued that the act should be described as seven attempted murders and that the sentence corresponded to life imprisonment.
The prosecutor is demanding a life sentence for the man who comes from Afghanistan.
Positive attitude to care
His defense lawyer Christian Berntö, on the other hand, pointed out that at least one of the acts should rather be seen as aggravated assault and that the penalty value corresponds to a fixed-term prison sentence.
Felt insulted
The accused man describes that he was in poor mental condition before the act in Vetlanda and that the attack was triggered by the fact that he became angry at a person whom he experienced as "harassing him".
- A person I did not know said that God does not exist, said the man in the district court and added:
- This person made me angry.
He went home and got a knife and thought he would hurt the person and then take his own life.
But none of the seven men who were stabbed were the person he claims to have been insulted by.
SVT is looking for a prosecutor and lawyer for a comment, the text may be updated.
Hear the suspect tell about the act in Vetlanda