An 18-year-old high school student was charged on Wednesday July 6 with the murder of two teachers at his school last March in Malmö, Sweden, the prosecution announced.
The young man will be tried for having killed the two women after school during an attack where he was armed "
with a knife and an ax
", indicated the Swedish office of prosecutors in a press release.
The defendant's lawyer, Anders Elison, told AFP that his client acknowledged the killings after his arrest and continues to acknowledge them.
Perpetuity incurred
Both women in their 50s had died of their injuries.
About fifty people were in the school at the time of the events.
The teenager had been arrested shortly after the attack.
According to his lawyer, the young man suffered from mental health problems and thought, the day of the attack, that he would not leave his school alive.
"
He wanted to put himself in a situation where there's no turning back, to get on with his own life
," Anders Elison said.
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The accused formally incurs life for a double murder, but Swedish justice regularly retains young age as a factor of clemency.
The trial will take place from July 20 in Malmö, the court in Sweden's third largest city has announced.