I had only been told that it was a minor job in Copenhagen, but not what it was about, he says during the first day of the trial in Copenhagen's district court.
The young Swede, who was 16 years old at the time of the incident and has now turned 18, is wearing a white shirt, tucked into a pair of suit pants with a black belt.
"My client denies terrorist crimes, but he admits to possessing five hand grenades and throwing two of them," says his defense lawyer Jakob Buch-Jepsen.
The target was not the Israeli embassy but a house located nearby and which was the building that was hit, the defense attorney claims.
My client did not know that it was the embassy that was going to be attacked.
Admits murder
During the trial, prosecutor Søren Harbo also asks questions about the shooting at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, where the 18-year-old Swede is charged with aggravated weapons offenses.
According to the 18-year-old, it was Foxtrot who issued an ultimatum where he had to choose between shooting at the embassy or carrying out "another mission."
He tells us that he hesitated several times before carrying out the act, how he went to the embassy in Stockholm and then turned around, but in the end he was "pressured", whereupon Harbo asks if he had been threatened.
This had to be done, otherwise it would affect me or my family.
The prosecutor asks if he has carried out any murder missions. The young Swede answers "yes", and that it is something that "has happened in Sweden", which Harbo himself sees as an admission of murder.
It is not clear which murder it is, but the 18-year-old has been identified as a suspect in a murder in Hallstahammar in 2024.
Connection to the Middle East
The elderly Swede accused, who is in court but will not be heard until September 26, denies all charges, according to his defense attorney Kåre Pihlmann.
According to information in SVT's "Upppdrag granskning", the attack on Israel's embassies was carried out by the Foxtrot network on behalf of Iran.
Harbo has not yet commented on who is suspected of having ordered the attack in Denmark, other than that there is a connection to the Middle East.
He believes that the penalty is high regardless of whether the Swedes are convicted of terrorism.
"Two hand grenades explode on a terrace belonging to a family with children and the family was at home. That alone makes this completely crazy," he says.
Two young Swedes, who are currently 18 and 21 years old, are charged in Denmark with terrorism and attempted terrorism for transporting five hand grenades in the fall of 2024 and then throwing two of them in the direction of the Israeli embassy, outside Copenhagen.
They are also charged with attempted murder.
The hand grenades hit a nearby house. No one was injured, but the building was extensively damaged.
The younger of the two Swedes is also charged with shooting at a window at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm the day before the attack in Copenhagen, an incident that will be dealt with in a separate trial in Sweden.
The elderly man is suspected of a murder in Malmö in August 2024.
Source: Ritzau
