HELSINKI, Finland — The main suspect in last week’s stabbing attack in Finland admits to killing two people and injuring eight others but denies any intent to murder, his lawyer says.
The Turku district court places Abderrahman Mechkah, an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen, in formal custody after he makes his statement to the court via video link from hospital, where he is being treated for a police gunshot wound to the thigh.
“The main suspect admits acts which led to deaths, but denies that they were murders,” his lawyer Kaarle Gummerus tells AFP.
The stabbing is being investigated as Finland’s first terror attack.
“He didn’t explain the motive of the acts,” Gummerus adds.
Two Finnish women were killed and six women and two men were injured. Among the injured were a Briton, an Italian and a Swede.
— AFP
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