Murder of Swedish politician Anna Lindh

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In 2003, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was stabbed to death in a department store in the middle of Stockholm. The 46-year-old member of the ruling Social Democratic party, was tipped as successor to Swedish Prime Minister Göran Person, and an important international career was likely around the corner. Her murder caused national trauma in Sweden. Her press secretary and best friend, Eva Franchell, witnessed the murder. She speaks to Marie Fjellborg. An SMT production for BBC World Service, produced by Anna Iverson. (Photo: Anna Lindh in 2001. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the witness history podcast from the BBC World Service, with me Anna
0:11.1	Ierson.
0:12.1	I'm taking you back to Sweden, in the early 2000s, where foreign minister Anna Lind was brutally
0:19.3	stabbed to death.
0:21.3	We'll hear from the person who stood eye to eye with a murderer.
0:29.8	It's the 10th of September, 2003, a sunny afternoon in Stockholm.
0:36.4	People discretely turn their heads, as a blonde woman dressed in a brown-sweighed jacket
0:42.2	strolls through the city centre.
0:45.5	She's 46 years old Anna Lind, foreign minister and a top member of the ruling social democratic
0:52.8	party.
0:54.4	Her big bright smile is seen on campaign posters throughout the country.
1:00.1	Today she's going shopping ahead of a TV debate.
1:04.1	She needed to buy a jacket.
1:06.5	As we tear the Swedish national television, they wanted her to wear a special colour.
1:13.2	The colour of the jacket shouldn't intersect with the decoration in this TV programme.
1:21.5	That's Eva Frankel, Anna's former press secretary and close friend.
1:27.2	She joins Anna in her mission.
1:30.0	Just before 4pm, they enter NK, the Nordic Company, an upmarket department store.
1:37.8	Anna is carrying a big bulky bag for all the clothes she intends on buying.
1:44.0	The two friends head straight to the women's department on the first floor.
1:49.8	And then we went from shop to shop, looking for this jacket.
1:54.9	We talked a lot about the euro, of course.
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