SWEDEN: Swedish police have released photographs of a man they suspect was involved in Wednesday's killing of the foreign minister, Anna Lindh, in a Stockholm department store.
Security footage shows the man wandering through the women's fashion department of the NK store. He has shoulder-length hair and is wearing olive green trousers, a grey hooded top and a blue baseball cap.
"We want more information about this man because he is very interesting in the investigation," said police spokeswoman Ms Agnetha Styrwoldt-Alfheim.
However, she declined to say whether they believed the man was Ms Lindh's attacker or a witness to the stabbing. Police say the man matches the description of the attacker but the chief of police in Stockholm, Mr Leif Jennekvist, called the man "either a suspect or a witness".
Stockholm's tabloid newspapers were quick to judge at the weekend, publishing the man's image with a digitally obscured face on their front pages under the headline "Murderer".
Police in Stockholm said yesterday they were questioning 10 people in connection with the killing. But with no suspects, no motive and no arrests four days after the attack, the lack of progress has awakened memories of the murder of Olof Palme, the prime minister, in February 1986, which remains unsolved.
However, police have recovered the knife used to kill Ms Lindh, which was discarded by her assailant as he fled.
But Police admitted at the weekend that they did not have the necessary equipment or experts to analyse the knife.
The ridged plastic handle has made it impossible to lift fingerprints from the knife and Swedish police have turned to forensic experts in Germany and Britain for help.