Shocking I know; investigators find right wing links and xenophobia played role in sword-attack in Sweden that left two dead.

Investigators in the southwestern Swedish town of Trollhattan confirmed that Thursday’s school attack was a “racially motivated” hate crime, based on the 21-year-old assailant’s “attire, his behaviour at the scene of the crimes”.

Police investigator Thord Haraldsson said the assailant targeted “those with dark complexions”, with the investigation so far “pointing to Nazism”.

Police also found documents at the killer’s home indicating the attack “was planned, and a hate crime,” he said, adding that the killer left a “kind of suicide note”.

The assailant, identified in the media as Anton Lundin-Pettersson, went from classroom to classroom at the Kronan school for six to 15-year-olds, wearing black clothes and a Darth Vader-like mask and German WWII helmet.