Knifed African in the subway: “It's only white people doing their job”

Published 8 August 2024 at 08.03

Foreign. A 35-year-old asylum seeker from Serbia is charged with murder and hate crime after unprovokedly attacking and stabbing a 15-year-old African boy in the subway in Stockholm.

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The tablet-abusing 35-year-old, who is described by the intervening police as “psychotic”, according to the indictment, carried out the crime on June 11 this year.

Earlier in the day, he had had an email conversation with a caseworker at the Migration Agency who promised him that he would get a quick response about his asylum application during the day or tomorrow at the latest.

The Serb writes in an email that he thinks he knows what the decision will be. At 10:53, eleven minutes before he is seen on a surveillance video from the Telefonplan subway station, he announces in a new email that he is grateful that the Swedish Migration Agency has looked at the documentation he submitted and that they should wish him luck.

The train was on its way to Slussen subway station when the Serb suddenly put a knife to the 15-year-old's neck from behind. In the surveillance footage, he appears to be smiling as he does this.

When the boy tried to run away, he followed and jumped on the victim, causing both to fall to the floor of the subway car. He managed to stab the 15-year-old in the lower back and in one buttock.

The African boy tells in the interrogation that at first he thought it was one of his friends playing a joke on him, but then he realized it was serious.

– He looked like a psychopath. I have never seen him in my entire life, says the 15-year-old in questioning.

According to the indictment, it was a coincidence that the injuries were not life-threatening. It was further, the prosecutor believes, only due to temporary circumstances that there was no danger of the murder being completed – because the subway train stopped at Slussen, the doors were opened and the 15-year-old managed to run out of the carriage.

Chamber prosecutor Charlotte Nordström believes that the act “seems to have the character of a hate crime”, which should be considered aggravating. She supports this on statements made by the 35-year-old in the reception at the Migration Agency during the evening after the incident.

During this evening, the man allegedly behaved threateningly, threw and threw objects, and said:

– Only white people do their jobs. Everyone else is evil.

In police interrogation, however, the defendant himself emphasizes that he is not a racist.

– There are blacks living in Serbia, with whom I have worked. They are (inaudible) and traveled with them. So I'm not a racist, no.

Traces of a photo of Mijailo Mijailovic, the Serb who murdered Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in 2004, were found in his mobile phone. In questioning, however, he claimed to have no recollection of the photo.

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The 35-year-old is also charged with minor drug offences, for having used the narcotic drug clonazepam.