The man had been known to Swedish security services but had no clear links to militant groups.
A statement was given by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven confirming this, a speech in which he brought up just how important it was for Swedish authorities to be manning the people both entering and leaving the country at this time, given the severity of what happened.
Attendees laid flowers on a large Swedish flag placed down the square's steps, while a woman in an Islamic headscarf was seen smiling with police guarding the ceremony, as she handed them flowers.
He declined to name the suspect, who had been arrested within hours of Friday's attack on shoppers in Stockholm.
The AftonBladet newspaper reported that the 39-year-old Uzbekistan citizen was scheduled for deportation.
The suspect had applied for residency in Sweden in 2014 but his application was rejected in December previous year, another police spokesman, Jan Evensson, told reporters.
On Friday, a beer truck plowed into a department store in Stockholm.
Police official Jonas Hysing told a news conference: "We know that he showed sympathies for extremist organisations, among them IS".
Police also say a second suspect had been arrested in connection with the attack, Reuters reports, but they believe the Uzbek man was the driver. Similar attacks happened earlier this year in London and Jerusalem.
Norwegian's security agency said it wasn't clear if the teen planned to carry out an attack with the primitive homemade device police defused without any injuries.
Sweden has always been known for its open-door policy toward migrants and refugees.
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The Uzbek, detained on Friday on suspicion of terrorist offences appeared to have acted alone, but police could not rule out that more people were involved, national police chief Dan Eliasson said on Saturday.
"The efforts to locate (these people) is both time-consuming and resource-intensive", he said.
The 39-year-old suspect had shown "sympathy for extremist organizations", police said.
"Do we somehow need a more repressive policy?" "That means we are going to continue to check objects, people, vehicles and so on". Their identities were not released.
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He reportedly told investigators he was "pleased with what he had done" and had "accomplished what he set out to do", the paper said. Stockholm county spokesman Patrik Soderberg said four of the 10 were considered "seriously" injured and the remaining six, including the child, were slightly hurt.
"I thought everyone would run past me and save themselves", said Papusa Ciuraru, whose foot was crushed by a boulder displaced by the speeding truck.
A failed asylum seeker in Berlin drove a truck into a Christmas market in December 2016, killing 12 people.
The Ahlens department store called the move "a bad decision" on its Facebook page.
The store said it would reopen today "without any damaged goods".
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