Anna Lindh

On the eve of the 9/11 commemoration, five years later, I would like today to mention another one worth honoring and remembering too.
Anna Lindh, a Swedish Politician, who was stabbed to death on this day, back in 2003.
Lindh was a Swedish Social Democrat and an important proponent of the European Union. She was Chairman of the Council of the European Union in 2001 and, at the time of her murder, a prime candidate to become the next President of the Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Sweden. She was attacked just prior to a Swedish referendum on the Euro, at the height of a public campaign she led for the approval of the currency.

Anna Lindh was the second prominent Swedish politician to be assassinated in recent decades. Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot and killed in 1986 by a still unidentified assailant.
Anna's murderer is serving a life imprisonment sentence, briefly commuted to a sojourn in a closed psychiatric ward when, on appeal, it was found that the murderer suffered from a mental illness at the time of the murder. Prosecutors, however, soon re-appealed into Supreme Court of Sweden which eventually on December 2 re-instated the life imprisonment.

More on Anne Lindh - here