On 28 February 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down in the street outside a cinema in Stockholm after taking in a movie with his wife and son.
His killer was never found.
Palme, who led Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 until his death, was a divisive figure who was not short of enemies. An outspoken critic of the US war in Vietnam and supporter of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, he favoured the expansion and extension of Sweden’s welfare state.
Even 35 years since the murder, the question of who was responsible divides Sweden. Many blame the CIA, others the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and yet others the apartheid-era South African government, of which Palme was critical.
Dozens of books have been written, TV shows made, newspaper
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