The trial is underway against an Uzbek asylum seeker on charges of terrorism for a truck attack that killed five people in Stockholm last year.
Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for 39-year-old Rakhmat A, the only suspect in the April 7 attack, who arrived at the court wearing a green fleece sweater.
The charge sheet states the suspect wanted to “create fear in the population” and “force the Swedish government and parliament to halt Sweden’s participation in an international training mission in Iraq” to dislodge so-called Islamic State (IS).
The court document accuses the suspect of planning the attack, stating he visited several locations in central Stockholm in advance of the assault. He is also charged with subjecting 150 other people to the risk of death or serious injury.
The 39-year-old suspect has admitted to carrying out the fatal attack and has been remanded in detention since the incident.
A hijacked beer truck rammed into the upscale Ahlens department store on the busy Drottninggatan street, a major pedestrianized shopping area in the center of the city and above the city’s main railway station.
A spokeswoman for transport company Spendrups told the French news agency AFP that the truck “had been stolen during a delivery to a restaurant.”
The area was cordoned off and large numbers of police and emergency services were at the scene. All subway traffic was also closed down in the city and the parliament was put on lockdown.