Details around the suspected terrorist, a 39-year-old Uzbekistan man, have now been released with Swedish police revealing he was an asylum seeker who had his application rejected in June last year and was wanted for deportation by immigration officials.
Swedish police said that the man was known to have had extremist sympathies – with witnesses today reportedly saying the driver of the truck had set himself on fire trying to detonate the explosive device in the back of the truck before trying to make his escape.
Police official Jonas Hysing told a news conference: “We know that he showed sympathies for extremist organisations, among them IS.”
He added: “In December 2016, he was informed by the Migration Agency that he had four weeks to leave the country. In February 2017, the case was handed over to the police to carry out the order, since the person had gone underground.”
/The Sun/
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