Stockholm bomber wanted to make more victims

stockholm - Rakhmat Akilov (39), the alleged perpetrator of the attack with a truck in Stockholm, wanted to make more victims of a bomb. This is evident from WhatsApp contact he'd had before and after the attack with an IS-warrior from Tajikistan. It reports the Swedish newspaper Expressen.

Akilov, who was rejected by an asylum application would IS have been commissioned to carry out the attack to protest the bombing in Syria. He hijacked Friday in the Swedish capital a truck, which he drove through the busiest shopping street in Stockholm at high speed. In addition, four people were killed, including a 11-year-old girl. Fifteen people were injured.

According to the Swedish newspaper he asked to stop using WhatsApp to his contact, which he invariably called 'brother', how to make a bomb of the stuff he had bought.

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'Brother, I now have three boxes of matches, a can of acetone, five lighters, gas bottle, 500 grams screws. The question is: how do I make that bomb? I want tomorrow to find a great car and thus approach it from people. '

Shortly after the attack, Akilov receives this message:

'Are you alive?'

Akilov:

'I killed ten people in central Stockholm. I have to get out of here!'

And later they contact from Arlanda airport:

The accomplice:

'Salam Alaikum, how you doing, brother?'

Akilov:

'Too bad, I'm run over several people, the car drove in the wrong direction. I'm at the airport, I'm stuck. '

The accomplice:

'Allah Akbar. I weep for you, brother. I love you, be strong. If Allah wishes, you are on the right track. '

Sweden on Monday with a minute of silence commemorating the victims of the terrorist attack in Stockholm. In the Swedish capital gathered many people around the site of the attack and at the town hall, where flags hung at half-mast.

At a memorial service held in the adjacent park premier Stefan Löfve followed by a speech. The Swedish royal family and members of parliament took part in the minute of silence.

During police interrogations would Akilov said that he 'satisfied' with what he did. The man, a father of four children and a truck driver, was staying illegally in Sweden. In 2014 he applied for a residence permit, but this was rejected in 2016.