STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Hundreds of people packed a Stockholm church on Sunday for a memorial service on the second anniversary of the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
Bo Holmberg, Lindh's husband, and Social Democratic Party secretary Marita Ulvskog laid a wreath of roses at her grave - already covered with hundreds of flowers - at the Katarina Church cemetery after the service.
Lindh, a 46-year-old who was widely seen as Sweden's next prime minister, was attacked as she shopped unguarded with a friend on Sept. 10, 2003. Her attacker, Mijailo Mijailovic, stabbed her at least seven times in the stomach, chest and arm. She died at a hospital the next morning.
"It's important that we remember Anna Lindh," Prime Minister Goran Persson wrote in a column Sunday in the tabloid Aftonbladet. "When I'm travelling and representing Sweden abroad, I'm constantly reminded of Anna. I meet her friends and talk about the issues she stood up for."
To honour her memory, the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund and a Swedish theatre group on Sunday held seminars in 10 cities on human trafficking - an evil Lindh combatted.
Mijailovic has been serving a life sentence since December, but will be moved from a high-security prison to a psychiatric clinic, prison officials said Friday.
He confessed to the stabbing, saying it was an impulse attack ordered by voices in his head, but insisted he didn't mean to kill Lindh.
In December, the Supreme Court sentenced him to life imprisonment, overturning a ruling by a lower court that had sentenced him to psychiatric care.
Mijailovic, a citizen of Serbia and Montenegro who renounced his Swedish citizenship last year, has requested to serve his prison sentence in the Balkan country.
