Swedish citizen Makaveli Lindén, 27, from Uppsala, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Belgium for the 2018 murder of a 58-year-old woman. The ruling contrasts with a 2020 Norwegian verdict sentencing him to psychiatric care for another murder. The Belgian court found he had feigned mental illness.
Makaveli Lindén was sentenced on April 30, 2026, in Belgium for murdering a 58-year-old woman in her home. The victim was killed with around 40 stab wounds, with signs of strangulation beforehand. Earlier that year, in 2018, Lindén murdered 24-year-old Heikki Bjørklund Paltto in Oslo with about 45 stab wounds.
In 2020, Oslo District Court deemed Lindén mentally ill and sentenced him to psychiatric care. The Belgian court rejected this, stating he had pretended to be mentally ill. Extradition from Norway to Belgium was requested in 2019 but only carried out in 2022.
Heikki Bjørklund Paltto's mother previously shared her grief with Dagbladet. "Heikki was a kind boy. He might have killed a fly, but that's probably the worst he's done," she said. She learned of her son's death while returning from Denmark and described it as random.
