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Wednesday, 03-Feb-2010 11:05AM United Press International
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MALMO, Sweden, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A court in Sweden began hearing a libel case Wednesday brought by a man initially suspected in the 2003 fatal stabbing of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

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The plaintiff, known in the media as "the 35-year-old", is suing the southern Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan for its coverage of his arrest, the Swedish news agency TT reports.

"Our news coverage was completely normal", Hans Mansson, Sydsvenskan publisher told TT. "If you had the bad luck to be arrested and detained as a suspect then you have to expect the misfortune to be written about."

The plaintiff is demanding $34,610 in damages from the newspaper in the first case brought by the 35-year-old to come to court.

He charges the newspaper presented him as a reprehensible person and the publication of certain personal details made him easily identifiable.

Lindh died from stab wounds she received during an attack in a department store in Stockholm.

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