Monday morning update:
We have a name! Unofficially, of course, as the police or other authorities will not confirm (at this point):
"Swedish court documents have confirmed the name of a 39-year-old Uzbek man being held in the truck attack in Stockholm as
Rakhmat Akilov. [Okay, so not "Mohammed Abdul Muslim", but not "Bjorn Johansson" either... definitely a name that could confirm the paranoid delusions of the unredeemable anti-immigrant islamophobes in Sweden and elsewhere...
"Rakhmat" is a muslim/arabic name meaning "blessing" or "sympathy, mercy, compassion, kindness". I'd hate to see what he'd do if he wasn't so sympathetic, merciful, compassionate, and kind!]
The Stockholm District Court says it has received a detention order in a case "regarding the incident at Drottninggatan in Stockholm" that occurred on April 7.
Akilov is suspected of killing four people and wounding 15 by crashing a stolen beer truck Friday into shoppers on pedestrian Drottninggatan street in downtown Stockholm.
Police have not confirmed his identity but say they are holding a 39-year-old Uzbek man on suspicion of driving the truck.
Court papers showed that Akilov, whose application for Swedish residency was turned down last year, is suspected of crimes against national security and terrorism. The court said it will decide Tuesday on his detention."
PLUS:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stockholm-attack-rakhmat-akilov-suspect-isis-whatsapp-messages-sweden-lorry-truck-before-after-a7676011.htmlThe man arrested on suspicion of killing four people by ramming a truck into crowds in Stockholm reportedly exchanged WhatsApp messages with Isis supporters before and after the rampage.
During an interrogation, Rakhmat Akilov said he had "achieved what he could achieve," a source told the Expressen newspaper.
The 39-year-old, from Uzbekistan, also
said the "order" for the attack on Drottninggatan came directly from Isis in Syria.He is alleged to have messaged an Isis supporter before and after the attack and confessed in the messages that he "ran over 10 people in the centre of Stockholm."
A second person was arrested over the weekend, and four others were being held by police. None of them have been identified.