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08:01, 21-Aug-2017
Finnish police: Turku stabber interrogated
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Finnish police will submit an incarceration order on Monday to the Southwestern Finland Regional Court against a chief suspect being held in connection with the stabbing attack in Turku.
In Finland, the police can hold a suspect in detention only for a limited time without a court approval.
Finnish police were able to interrogate him on Sunday afternoon for Friday's stabbings, but released no details.
Crista Granroth, the officer in charge of the investigation, told Finnish News Agency that there were "ideological thoughts" behind the attacks, but did not specify what kind of ideology the investigators had been able to observe.
The suspect needs not be present in the court process, as he is still in the hospital, according to media reports.
The 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker was arrested on charges of killing two women in a knife rampage and wounding eight other people – six of them women – on Friday in Turku's main market square.
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency