Case of the murder of Olof Palme: a New book could help to solve the 30-year-old mystery

It is the 28. February 1986. Olof Palme, 59 years of age, and Sweden's social democratic Minister of state, with his wife on the way from a cinema visit home. Palm, the protection is without police on the road, is shot on the street corner between the streets of Sveavägen and Tunnelgatan close. He died in hospital from his injuries. For the whole of Sweden, the assassination is a shock. Even today, the murder and yet failed education are a national Trauma.

The investigation into the question of who or what is behind the Palme-murder, are still on-going. There were a lot of hints, conjecture and claim of responsibility. Some led to the RAF and the PKK. There was information according to which right-wing members of the Swedish secret service, Säpo conspiracy to commit murder against palm had planned. In 1988, the ex-offenders drug addict Christer Pettersson was presented as the perpetrators of the Public. He was only a year later due to lack of Evidence. Today the investigating Prosecutor Krister Pettersson holds the then defendants, and the 2004 late Christer Pettersson also innocent. A track then led to South Africa. Palme was a strong opponent of the then Apartheid regime. He supported the ANC and driving sanctions against the South African government and was, thus, the Regime there, a thorn in the eye.

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Rose, He was the Palme-killer on the track: crime-writer Stieg Larsson.

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And this track is now back with new instructions hot. In the book "Stieg Larsson's legacy – the key to The Palme murder" by Jan Stocklassa, the author of the research, and the writer presents Stieg Larsson. As a mystery writer known Larsson ("the Millennium trilogy") was also the Investigative Journalist who had created since the assassination of Palme, a huge archive of Clues and investigations. This he left Stocklassa. The newspaper "Aftonbladet".

Stocklassa says in his book, to have the culprit found, murdered Palme: at The time, young man, which he gives in the book, the alias name Jacob Thedelin, to have had contacts to other palm-opponents. One of them was a middle-man between Thedelin and South African agents, as well as Swedish right-wing extremists. Stocklassa came out on the trail, because the e-Mail correspondence between Thedelin and Bertil Wedin - Swedish Journalist, of spying for the Säpo, Agent of the South African secret service, and also palm-opponents - in the Kaçak Bahis hands of the. Thedelin was interrogated after the murder, but later ignored, as the focus was on Christer Pettersson. But Thedelin was Sveavägen according to the research of Stocklassa when committing the crime in the street, had no Alibi and was a close friend of Bertil Wedin, the alleged middle man.

the murder weapon in a Bank locker?

in Front of a hidden camera is supposed to have said Jacob Thedelin according to "Aftonbladet", among other things, he would get the order to "kill the leader", and that he would be to that time in Sveavägen. He also claimed that Palme was a Soviet spy. Later Thedelin withdrew the statements. According to research by Stocklassa Thedelin to be the Executive force behind the assassination and "scapegoat".

Moreover, suggests even more to Jacob Thedelin. The police searched for a Bank locker of his, the alleged murder weapon, the murder is still to be located, so the research Stocklassas according to "Aftonbladet". Thedelin to pay, in spite of poor financial conditions, several hundred Euro per year, to be able to have the locker next to keep.

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it is Claimed that South Africa put behind the assassination: Eugene de cook

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Both Thedelin as well as Bertil Wedin, should have contact to the extreme Right, and to South Africa. In Stocklassas book and key figures, which has close Links to South Africa had, including a South African soldier of the elite and people who worked for the Apartheid Regime. Another note comes from Eugene de Koch, a former Colonel in the South African police and the head of the "Vlakplaas" death squad that fought the resistance against the Regime. De chef later said that four of South Africa were niche agents behind the assassination.

another clue that leads to South Africa, the research by Boris Ersson. This came already in 1994 in contact with former employees of the South African secret service, the alleged that Craig Williamson, had planned the assassination. Williamson, as a "super spy of Apartheid" and should be for many of the political killings. Williamson is supposed to have the night of the murder of Palme-murder in Stockholm stopped, even only a few hundred meters from the scene of the crime. He denies to have anything to do with the assassination.

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Craig Williamson: he Is the mastermind in the murder?

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The palm-group of the police, which is investigating the murder case, wants to determine on the basis of the new findings again in the direction of South Africa, as "Aftonbladet". It was also questioned, according to investigators, a Person; of what was not said. It had been also a Bank locker searches. You have, however, found nothing, according to investigators. To covers the further investigations, the police in Silence. Jacob Thedelin should be according to "Aftonbladet" in the meantime, in Israel, in hiding.

Date Of Update: 06 November 2018, 08:00