Unsolved mysteriesOlof Palme's killer is still alive
One of the greatest mysteries in post-Second World War Europe may be a step closer to resolution; on 28 February 1986, Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was shot and killed while strolling down a busy Stockholm street with his wife Lisbet; despite tens of thousands of tips and leads in the almost twenty-four years since the crime, the murder has never been solved, and the weapon, a .357 Magnum revolver, has never been found
Palme at a 1985 meeting with Fidel Castro // Source: aftonbladet.se
Sweden’s former prime minister Olof Palme was shot by a contract killer hired by Yugoslav security services, German weekly news magazine Focus said Monday (“Heiße Spur im Mordfall Palme,” 16 January 2011 Focus)
The killer, now 65, lives in Zagreb, Croatia and works for a private security firm, the media report wrote.
Swedish police, however, have already excluded the man from their investigations.
“This came to our attention already in 1988 and since then we’ve followed it up quite thoroughly and been in contact on several occasions with the person who provided the information,” Stig Edqvist, head of the Swedish police taskforce, told Svenska Dagbladet.
Palme was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986.
Olof Palme was strolling down a busy Stockholm street on the night of 28 February 1986 with his wife Lisbet when an unidentified assailant gunned him down.
The Swedish Wire reports that despite tens of thousands of tips and leads in the almost twenty-four years since the crime, the murder has never been solved, and the weapon, a .357 Magnum revolver, has never been found.
