The public prosecutor announced on Monday that a suspect has been identified in the January murder of an anti-Islam campaigner in Sweden , a case the Swedish prime minister suggested could involve foreign connections.

“We have a good picture of the sequence of events, and after extensive technical investigations and review of obtained surveillance footage,” the prosecutor said in a statement. “At present, the suspect’s whereabouts are unknown.”

The statement did not name the suspect.

Court documents obtained by Reuters showed the suspect was a 24-year-old Syrian man who lived in Sweden at the time of the murder. It said Koran-burner Salwan Momika had been shot three times and the killing “had been preceded by careful planning”.

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