Dignitaries from around the world have honoured murdered Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh as an "invisible treasure."
More than 1,300 guests gathered inside the Stockholm City Hall for a 90-minute private memorial service, as prosecutors said they would seek a court order to keep the 35-year-old man arrested for her killing in custody for another week.
Lindh, 46, touted as a future prime minister, was stabbed in the chest, stomach and arms on September 10 as she shopped at a department store and died the next day.
Guests at the ceremony included Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten, European Commission President Romano Prodi, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix and Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Prime Minister Goeran Persson said Lindh was "a woman who loved the world and who was loved by the world."
Patten said she was unusual among diplomats. "Anna had no problems in using ethics and foreign policy in the same sentence," he said.
Security around the event was intense with canal locks closed, private flights banned and hundreds of armed police, some plainclothes officers. In the waters surrounding the building, patrol boats moved backed and forth. Police snipers were stationed on neighbouring buildings.
A separate private memorial service was held at the store where Lindh was stabbed.
A store spokeswoman said the giant mound of flowers and handwritten cards left in front of the store by grieving Swedes would be moved to City Hall tomorrow.
AP