"Party, which he held until 1996. Two years later, Christer Pettersson (d. 2004), a small-time criminal and drug addict, was convicted of Palme's murder, but his conviction was overturned. The crime remains unsolved. Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician and statesman. A longtime protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from"
"Olof Palme often went about without a bodyguard. Close to midnight on 28 February 1986, he was walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme in the central Stockholm street Sveavägen when he was shot in the back at close range. A second shot grazed Lisbet's back. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Sabbatsbergs sjukhus hospital at 00:06 CET. Lisbet survived without serious injuries. Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister, a post he retained until 1991 (and then again in 19941996). He also took over the leadership of the Social Democratic"
"Lisbeth Palme Anna Lisbeth Christina Palme, née Beck-Friis (also sometimes spelled Lisbet Palme, 14 March 1931 – 18 October 2018), was a Swedish children's psychologist, UNICEF chairwoman and the widow of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, who was assassinated in 1986. Anna Lisbeth Christina Beck-Friis was born to civil engineer and freiherr Christian Beck-Friis and his wife Anna-Lisa. After graduating from the ""Nya Elementarskolan för flickor"" (New Elementary School for Girls) in Stockholm in 1950, she studied and graduated from Stockholm University in the summer of 1955. Palme worked as a children's psychologist and was during a period of time"
"couple was attacked by a lone gunman. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme. Police said that a taxi driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm, and two girls in a nearby car tried to assist. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at 00:06 CET on 1 March 1986. The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan. Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister and as new leader of the Social Democratic Party. Palme's decision to visit the Grand"
"wealth of company owners and managers. Capitalists immediately distinguished this proposal as socialism, and launched an unprecedented opposition—including calling off the class compromise established in the 1938 Saltsjöbaden Agreement. The 1980s were a very turbulent time in Sweden that initiated the occasional decline of Social Democratic Party rule. In the 1980s, pillars of Swedish industry were massively restructured. Shipbuilding was discontinued, wood pulp was integrated into modernized paper production, the steel industry was concentrated and specialized, and mechanical engineering was digitalized. In 1986, one of the Social Democratic Party's strongest champions of egalitarianism and democracy, Olof Palme was assassinated. Swedish"
"the first Terrorist Act in 1973 was an immediate policy upshot of this, which among other things gave the police the right to deport people affiliated with terrorist organisations without delay. These incidents also led to internal changes within the Department of Security, which received more resources. On 28 February 1986, Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated by an unknown gunman. The Department was not widely criticized, partly because Palme himself had declined protection on the night of the murder. It nevertheless sparked the resignation of the National Police Commissioner Nils Erik Åhmansson and the head of the Department, Sune"
"prime minister; firstly between 1969 and 1976, and again between 1982 and 1986. Together they had three sons: Joakim, Mårten and Mattias. The couple had been married for almost 30 years when Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986. Lisbeth Palme was an eyewitness to the murder of her husband on the night of 28 February 1986. During the trial, she pointed out Christer Pettersson as being the perpetrator of the killing. According to a detective present, she also made remarks that it was evident that Pettersson was an alcoholic. The comments were interpreted by some as if she had been"
"force was seen as necessary to keep Soviet anti-submarine aircraft from operating in the missile launch area. In return, Swedish scientists at the Royal Institute of Technology made considerable contributions to enhancing the targeting performance of the Polaris missiles. On February 28, 1986, the Social Democratic leader and Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered; shocked Swedes worried whether the nation had ""lost its innocence"". In the early 1990s, there occurred once again an economic crisis with high unemployment and many banks and companies going bankrupt. In 1995, a few years after the end of the Cold War, Sweden became"
"informed that the suspect was an alcoholic and a drug addict. Several experts have, over the years, pointed towards the possibility that Lisbeth Palme may have identified the wrong man. Palme died on 18 October 2018, after suffering from an unspecified illness for some time. She was 87. Lisbeth Palme Anna Lisbeth Christina Palme, née Beck-Friis (also sometimes spelled Lisbet Palme, 14 March 1931 – 18 October 2018), was a Swedish children's psychologist, UNICEF chairwoman and the widow of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, who was assassinated in 1986. Anna Lisbeth Christina Beck-Friis was born to civil engineer and freiherr"
"because a German court publicly implicated senior members of the government and issued arrest warrants for Ali Fallahian, the head of the Iranian Intelligence. Evidence indicates that Fallahian's personal involvement and individual responsibility for the murders were far more pervasive than his current indictment record represents. Anwar Sadat, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt (formerly President of the United Arab Republic), was assassinated October 6, 1981, during the annual parade celebrating Operation Badr, the opening maneuver of the Yom Kippur War. Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was murdered by a gun-wielding man close to midnight on February 28, 1986,"
"criticised the TV documentary severely, claiming that the filmmaker had fabricated a number of statements while omitting other contradictory evidence. Christer Pettersson Carl Gustaf Christer Pettersson (23 April 1947 – 29 September 2004) was a Swedish criminal who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. In 1988 he was convicted of the murder in district court but acquitted on appeal the following year. Pettersson grew up in a middle-class family in Solna outside of Stockholm and later moved to the suburb Sollentuna. In his youth he attended a theatrical school (""Calle Flygares"
"Christer Pettersson Carl Gustaf Christer Pettersson (23 April 1947 – 29 September 2004) was a Swedish criminal who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. In 1988 he was convicted of the murder in district court but acquitted on appeal the following year. Pettersson grew up in a middle-class family in Solna outside of Stockholm and later moved to the suburb Sollentuna. In his youth he attended a theatrical school (""Calle Flygares teaterskola"") where he was considered very promising by at least one of his teachers. However, Pettersson suffered a head injury"
"kills the killer, and all traces pointing to the professional hitman are gone. The Last Contract The Last Contract () is a 1998 Swedish thriller film directed by Kjell Sundvall. It is a work of fiction about the circumstances surrounding the actual murder of the Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme on 28 February 1986. A Swedish police officer (played by Mikael Persbrandt) discovers the plan to assassinate Palme and tries to prevent it. The film also starrs Pernilla August, Reine Brynolfsson and Cecilia Ljung. The film is based on a novel by an anonymous writer, who used the"
"the election threshold for the first time, receiving 5.5 percent of the votes and thus twenty seats in parliament. The conservative parties together lost nineteen seats. Carlsson I Cabinet The first cabinet of Ingvar Carlsson () was the cabinet of Sweden between March 12, 1986 and February 1990. The cabinet was formed as a direct consequence of the assassination of the incumbent prime minister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986. After which the Speaker of the Parliament, Ingemund Bengtsson, in accordance with the Constitution of Sweden discharged all ministers. In the course of the first cabinet of Ingvar Carlsson, Sweden"
"Kristina Lindström), Best Editing (Andreas Jonsson, Hanna Lejonqvist and Niels Pagh Andersen) and Best Original Score (Benny Andersson). It won in the latter two categories. On Friday evening, February 28, 1986 Olof Palme was shot dead in the street. The day after, the news reached out to the people that the country's prime minister was dead, and the whole country found itself suddenly shocked. In the film one can follow Palme's life from youth until he is murdered. His long career in the Swedish Social Democratic Party is also shown. Other subjects that the film also treats are more controversial"
"founder of the 1916 established Sigtuna museum. Palme was known as a keen anti-socialist who was radicalized after the 1906 Hakaniemi riot in Helsinki. He was openly racist and has been described as a proto-fascist. In January 1918 Palme organized the voluntary Swedish Brigade to join the Finnish Civil War, fighting aside with the Finnish White Guards. He was killed by the Reds in the Battle of Tampere in April 1918. Palme was buried in Sigtuna. Olof Palme was the brother of the military officer Nils Palme and the businessman Gunnar Palme (1886–1934), who was the father of the prime"
"himself. The couple died immediately, and a clear motive for the incident has never been established. The weapon used in the murder of Hjalmar von Sydow, an iron pipe, is today part of an exhibition at the Swedish Police Museum. The late 1900s and the early 2000s are overshadowed by two notorious political assassinations: the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme and the 2003 murder of Anna Lindh. The assassination of Olof Palme has still not been solved as of 2018, despite it being the subject of one of the most significant criminal investigations in the world. Mijailo Mijailović, Anna Lindh's"
"years later, after Rajneesh was convicted for immigration fraud, tax evasion, embezzlement of his disciples' funds and bioterror attacks on the citizens of The Dalles and subsequently deported from the US, Gärdestad's family persuaded him to move back to Sweden. His severe mental health problems became increasingly apparent. Shortly after Gärdestad's return to Sweden in 1986, the Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, was murdered. Gärdestad was wrongly mentioned in the Swedish media as ""the 33-year-old,"" a suspect in the investigation of the assassination, which severely affected him although Gärdestad was on vacation in Greece at the time of the"
"1520, when parts of the royalty and the nobility desired to get rid of several of their competitors and critics. Two highly acclaimed murders of politicians during recent years include the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986 and the murder of Anna Lindh in 2003. Additionally, several terrorist attacks have occurred in the city, namely the West German Embassy siege in 1975, the 2010 Stockholm bombings and the 2017 Stockholm attack. If you consider the entire period between 1750 and 2009, it is to be noted that cases of murder and manslaughter have not increased in the past"
"to Argentina after the failed ""Tanquetazo"", but returned to Chile in mid-July 1973, two months before the military coup. Thieme also revealed that in 1973, he was pressured by the military to assassinate Senator Carlos Altamirano, who had been the general secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party since 1971. The Swedish journalist Anders Leopold, in his 2008 book ""Det svenska trädet skall fällas"", makes the case that PyL leader Roberto Thieme was the assassin in the still-unsolved 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme. According to Leopold, the Swedish prime minister was killed because he had freely given asylum"
"The Last Contract The Last Contract () is a 1998 Swedish thriller film directed by Kjell Sundvall. It is a work of fiction about the circumstances surrounding the actual murder of the Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme on 28 February 1986. A Swedish police officer (played by Mikael Persbrandt) discovers the plan to assassinate Palme and tries to prevent it. The film also starrs Pernilla August, Reine Brynolfsson and Cecilia Ljung. The film is based on a novel by an anonymous writer, who used the pseudonym ""John W. Grow"", which suggests that a British professional assassin (played by"
"not be able not to perform his duties. With the enactment of the 1974 Instrument of Government and the inauguration of Thorbjörn Fälldin's three-party cabinet in 1976, Per Ahlmark was formally sworn in as the first to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister. In 1986 Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson became acting Prime Minister for the transitional cabinet from March 1 to March 12, upon the assassination of Olof Palme, the only time the death of the Prime Minister has caused the Deputy Prime Minister to temporarily assume the office. Carlsson subsequently received the task of forming a new"
"Carlsson I Cabinet The first cabinet of Ingvar Carlsson () was the cabinet of Sweden between March 12, 1986 and February 1990. The cabinet was formed as a direct consequence of the assassination of the incumbent prime minister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986. After which the Speaker of the Parliament, Ingemund Bengtsson, in accordance with the Constitution of Sweden discharged all ministers. In the course of the first cabinet of Ingvar Carlsson, Sweden — as well as most other western countries in the late 80s — enjoyed a period of economic expansion. The cabinet undertook a reform of the"
"Ebbe Carlsson affair The Ebbe Carlsson scandal () was a major political scandal in Sweden occurring during mid-1988. The affair came to public knowledge on 1 June 1988, when the evening newspaper ""Expressen"" revealed that Ebbe Carlsson, a journalist and publisher and former secretary at the Swedish Government, was carrying out an independent and illegal investigation into the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme, secretly supported by the minister for justice Anna-Greta Leijon. The scandal forced Anna-Greta Leijon to resign a week later, and was finally concluded with Ebbe Carlsson, by then dying with AIDS, being fined for smuggling in"
"constituency for over 20 years). The couple had two sons, Filip and David. On 16:00 10 September 2003, while shopping in the ladies' section of the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in central Stockholm for a televised debate later that night on the referendum about Sweden's adoption of the euro, Lindh was stabbed in the chest, abdomen and arms. At the time, she was not protected by bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service; this proved controversial, given the similarity between Lindh's murder and that of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986 (the first murder of a government member in modern Swedish"
"Sten Wickbom Sten Gustaf Wickbom (14 March 1931 – 26 December 2015) was a Swedish politician and member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. Wickbom served as the Minister for Justice from 1983 to 1987. He then became the Governor of Kronoberg County from 1988 to 1995. Wickbom, who served Minister for Justice from 1983 to 1987, oversaw the investigation into the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme, which occurred on February 28, 1986, during his tenure. One year later, Wickbom left the government shortly after the escape of Stig Bergling, a former Swedish Security Service convicted of spying for"
"Hans Holmér Hans Gillis Åke Holmér (28 December 1930 – 4 October 2002), Chief of the Swedish National Security Service (SÄPO) and later Chief constable of Stockholm county police force (""""länspolismästare"""" in Swedish). He became well known during his tenure, spanning barely a year, as Chief of the special investigation unit into the assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (1986-87). Holmér was commonly associated with the Swedish Social Democratic Party and was known to have good connections within its top ranks. After the assassination of Palme, Hans Holmér, then the Chief constable of Stockholm county police, personally took"
"scathingly criticized the documentary, alleging that the film-maker had fabricated a number of statements while omitting other contradictory evidence, in particular his chief source's earlier testimony that could not be reconciled with his claim to have seen the shooting. On 21 February 1986 — a week before he was murdered — Palme made the keynote address to the ""Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid"" held in Stockholm, attended by hundreds of anti-apartheid sympathizers as well as leaders and officials from the ANC and the Anti-Apartheid Movement such as Oliver Tambo. In the address, Palme said, ""Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has"
"inclusion), Brandt retaliated by forcing Carlsson to step down. Carlsson left London and returned to Sweden in 1983 and, for two years, became Palme's special emissary to the Middle East and Africa. Palme entrusted him with an important Middle East role in delicate attempts to negotiate a peace agreement between Iran and Iraq. From 1985 to 1987 Carlsson was head of Nordic Affairs in Sweden's foreign ministry. In 1986 Palme was assassinated. On 1 July 1987 Carlsson was appointed an Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the UN Commissioner for Namibia. On 28 September 1987 Carlsson was interviewed in the"
"list, the first time the party had had parliamentary representation. 1985 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 1985. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 159 of the 349 seats. Its leader, Olaf Palme, kept his position as Prime Minister. He would retain this position successfully until his assassination in 1986. At a campaign meeting in Sundsvall on 22 August, Minister of Social Welfare Sten Andersson promised to increase the state pensions as a compensation for the price increases following the devaluation of the krona in 1982. The"
"as the murderer of Olof Palme and has been called ""Grandmannen"". Mårten Palme Mårten Olof Palme (born 31 October 1961) is Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. He belongs to the Palme family and is the second son of the late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and his wife Lisbet Palme, and the brother of Joakim and Mattias Palme. On the evening of Olof Palme's assassination, Mårten Palme and his girlfriend had joined his parents and had been at the cinema Grand, where they watched ""The Mozart Brothers"". When Mårten and his girlfriend left his parents after the cinema they"
"after Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was shot to death re-emerged. The blurry images appear to show a man similar to Eugene de Kock, which is notable as de Kock himself claimed the South African security services were involved in the assassination. His lawyer has strongly denied that de Kock was in Sweden at that time or that he has ever visited Sweden. (South African spy Craig Williamson was present in Stockholm at the time of the assassination, however, possibly to surveil an ANC conference held in Stockholm.) Eugene de Kock Eugene Alexander de Kock (born 29 January 1949) is"
"The investigation is the second-largest in Swedish history, only surpassed by the investigation of the 1986 assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme. Helén Nilsson was abducted on the night of 20 March 1989, and her body was found six days later. She had been alive for several days after the abduction and had been raped. A number of leads were followed over the years but Olsson was not a person of interest to the police until 2002. A police investigator involved with a re-opening of the case was informed of a man (Olsson) who had been suspected by the"