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When Daniel Nyqvist, then 21, woke up on October 19, 2004, he got ready without brushing his teeth; he had decided to kill two people and he was sure that he would either die or get stuck. He took the morning bus from Sturefors to the city, where he walked looking for victims.
In Åsgatan, the fatal accident fell on Mohammad Ammouri, 8 years old, and Anna-Lena Svenson, 56 years old.
“It was kind of automatic. I saw a child, I attacked with a knife and then a woman. When I looked up … she was standing there like an ice cream cone. She didn’t say anything and I ran up to her and stabbed her. “This is how Daniel Nyqvist describes the facts that he immediately admitted in police questioning.
Daniel Nyqvist was linked to the murders with the help of the DNA genealogy investigation.
Photo: Police
He says he had to do it to “have peace of mind.” These thoughts, he affirms during interrogations, had caused him prolonged periods of difficulty in sleeping and at the time of the attack the child and the woman were walking “as if in a mist.
The tool Nyqvist used is said to have been a so-called butterfly knife, which he claims he acquired when he was 15 years old during a family vacation in Poland. At that time, it must have caused a wound that is still a scar on his palm, because it was a “bad knife”.
“I am sorry for the victims, but I had to do it,” Daniel Nyqvist told the interrogator, “to get to paradise when I die.” He never thought he would escape from the police, he thought he would be shot or end up in jail.
– He has always admitted a crime. Inside he had a photo that he had to murder two people. This inner image he had was of two points and a line. The points were the ones he was going to kill and the line was himself, says chamber prosecutor Britt-Louise Viklund, who notes that no ideological motive has been found behind the killings and that the victims should have been selected at random.
Flores from the place where an 8-year-old boy and a 56-year-old woman were murdered in 2004.
Photo: Magnus Hallgren
Part of the interrogations with Nyqvist and his friends it has been about their ideological worldview. A childhood friend says the 37-year-old changed during high school and then started every day by doing a Nazi salute in front of the Swedish flag.
Nyqvist himself denies it – “they may have said it’s tough” – and his older brother says in questioning that it is unlikely that he would have saluted Hitler and that “he never heard or noticed that his brother Daniel would have extreme political views. right “.
Several acquaintances of the 37-year-old double murder suspect express surprise and surprise that he may have committed such a crime. “Friendly” is a recurring word in police questioning. A man who describes himself as Daniel Nyqvist’s best friend until high school age, however, says he has a strong memory of Nyqvist at the age of ten and says he “wonders what it would be like to kill someone”. The friend describes that he still feels bad about that memory.
Ex friend He also tells police that the suspect has “a special relationship with violence and lacks empathy, while he was very nice to friends.” This man told police about Daniel Nyqvist in January 2020 because he recognized the hat that was at the crime scene and thought a ghost image looked like him.
He claims that he had tried to call the police before, but they had disconnected him. This time he asked to be connected to the investigator and this led to Daniel Nyqvist being called in for coverage, but he never showed up.
The police house in Linköping.
Photo: Daniel Costantini
Daniel Nyqvist could finally be linked to the double murder in Linköping with the help of a DNA-based genealogy service. This meant that his older brother was also in the hit movie, but he was quickly dismissed on suspicion. The brother says in the interrogation that he never thought of the idea that Daniel Nyqvist had committed the crimes, that he “thinks it’s wrong” because “he’s very nice”, but also that “Daniel must have had a psychosis”.
Daniel Nyqvist’s cousin and uncle tell police they haven’t had such a close relationship with him. His grandmother, for his part, was the couple’s nanny and he says that Daniel Nyqvist “has always been so calm and kind” and continues:
“Now that I know what Daniel has done, I don’t seem to know him very well. This is terribly difficult to take in.”
