In what year was Olaf Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, assassinated?
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Victor Gunnarsson Victor Gunnarsson (1953, Jämjö – between 3 and 4 December 1993) was a Swedish right-wing activist, who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. He immigrated to the United States, and was later murdered in 1993 in North Carolina by former police officer Lamont C. Underwood as part of a love triangle. Gunnarsson (labeled in the media ""33-åringen"", ""the 33-year-old"") was an early suspect for the assassination of Olof Palme on the late evening of 28 February 1986, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was taken in for questioning a first time on 8 March,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"out Olof Palme's assassination. The 8 September 2010 edition of ""Efterlyst"", Sweden's equivalent of BBC TV's"" Crimewatch ""programme, was co-hosted by Tommy Lindström, who was the head of Swedish CID at the time of Olof Palme's assassination. After being asked by Efterlyst's host Hasse Aro who he believed was behind the assassination of the Prime Minister, Lindström without hesitating pointed to apartheid South Africa as the number one suspect. And the motive for this, he said, was to stop the payments (financed by the Soviet Union) that the Swedish government secretly paid, through Switzerland, to the African National Congress. In"
"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"
"Ulofa Palme Street Ulofa Pal'me Street (, romanised: ""úlitsa Úlofa Pál'me"") is a street in Ramenki District, Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow. The street was named after Olof Palme, the assassinated Prime Minister of Sweden. Effectively, Ulofa Pal'me Street is an extension of Universitetsky Prospekt, the latter ending at a crossroads with Mosfilmovskaya Street. Ulofa Pal'me Street runs further north-west downhill towards Setun River and turns to the right after crossing Dovzhenko Street. The embassy of Sweden is located at the crossing of Mosfilmovskaya Street and Ulofa Pal'me Street, the actual address being 60 Mosfilmovskaya Street. A considerable number of streets"
"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"
"camp, resulted in a temporary freeze in Sweden–United States relations. Palme's murder on a Stockholm street on 28 February 1986 was the first assassination of a national leader in Sweden since Gustav III, and had a great impact across Scandinavia. Local convict and addict Christer Pettersson was originally convicted of the murder in the first instance court tingsrätten, but was acquitted on appeal to the Svea hovrätt. Palme was born into an upper class, conservative Lutheran family in the Östermalm district of Stockholm, Sweden. The Palme family is of Dutch ancestry and is related to several other prominent Swedish families"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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 saw a man who followed Olof Palme. This man is recognized"
"around the world have been named after Olof Palme, particularly in Sweden. See the disambiguation page Olof Palme Street and the Memorials section of the Olof Palme page for more information. Ulofa Palme Street Ulofa Pal'me Street (, romanised: ""úlitsa Úlofa Pál'me"") is a street in Ramenki District, Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow. The street was named after Olof Palme, the assassinated Prime Minister of Sweden. Effectively, Ulofa Pal'me Street is an extension of Universitetsky Prospekt, the latter ending at a crossroads with Mosfilmovskaya Street. Ulofa Pal'me Street runs further north-west downhill towards Setun River and turns to the right after"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"Lennart Ljung (general) Karl Hilmer Lennart Ljung (13March 1921 – 19November 1990) was a Swedish Army general and Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1978 to 1986. During Ljung's eight years as Supreme Commander many events of importance for Swedish security and defense policy occurred. Sweden had five different governments under four prime ministers from different political sides. Olof Palme was murdered, the submarine incidents culminated with the Soviet submarine ""U 137"" running aground in Karlskrona and the decision of developing a new fighter aircraft came through. Ljung was born in Sollefteå, Sweden, the son of captain Hilmer"
"truth and the deal with India become threatened. According to Bondeson, Swedish police suppressed vital MI6 intelligence about a Bofors/AE Services deal with India. The Swedish journalist Anders Leopold, in his 2008 book ""Det svenska trädet skall fällas"" (""The Swedish Tree Shall Be Brought Down""), makes the case that the Chilean fascist Roberto Thieme killed Olof Palme. Thieme was head of the most militant wing of Patria y Libertad, a far-right political organization, financed by the US CIA. According to Leopold, Palme was killed because he had gratuitously given asylum to a great number of leftist Chileans following the coup"
"Nils Palme Nils Palme (26 February 1895 – 6 January 1963) was a Swedish military and landowner. Nils Palme was the son of Sven Palme and Hanna von Born, the brother of Olof and Gunnar Palme and the paternal uncle of late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. He was an officer at Göta Artillery Regiment before he became head of the fourth battery at the Artillery School in Jacobstad. During the hunger- and military demonstrations in 1917 in Gothenburg, he contributed to force down the demonstrations. During the Finnish Civil War, he participated on the white side as battery manager"
"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"
"Palme was shot and killed in Stockholm as he walked home from a cinema with his wife, Lisbet Palme. Pettersson was accused of Palme's murder after an extensive investigation by the Swedish police. He was picked out from a police lineup by Lisbet Palme. The original tip-off leading to the incrimination of Pettersson has been described by some as very dubious. Although the .357-caliber Magnum pistol used to kill Palme was never found, Pettersson was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988. However, in 1989 he was freed after an appeal court cited lack of evidence, including the missing"
"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"
"1993} (labeled in the media ""33-åringen"", ""the 33-year-old""), was soon arrested for the murder but quickly released, after a dispute between the police and prosecuting attorneys. Gunnarsson had connections to various extremist groups, among these the European Workers Party, the Swedish branch of the LaRouche Movement. Pamphlets hostile to Palme from the party were found in his home outside Stockholm. In December 1988, almost three years after Palme's death, Christer Pettersson, a criminal, drug user and alcoholic, who had previously been imprisoned for manslaughter, was arrested for the murder of Palme. Picked out by Mrs Palme at a lineup as"
"period to curb the influence of fossil fuel. His intervention in Sweden's 1980 referendum on the future of nuclear power is often pinpointed by opponents of nuclear power as saving it. As of 2011, nuclear power remains one of the most important sources of energy in Sweden, much attributed to Palme's actions. Shortly before his assassination, Palme had been accused of being pro-Soviet and not sufficiently safeguarding Sweden's national interest. Arrangements had therefore been made for him to go to Moscow to discuss a number of contentious bilateral issues, including then ongoing Soviet submarine incursions into Swedish waters (see US"