Sweden: “We can not even theft clarify”
Twenty years ago, in Stockholm, the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered. After looking for the perpetrators to authorities today.
From Reinhard Wolff, Stockholm :”Well, where is survived?” His half working life has spent Lennart Gustavsson, after the killers of Olof Palme for it. The Criminal in specter belongs to the handful of police, shortly after 28 February 1986 aufgeboten. On Friday, was to clock 23.31 in the middle of Stockholm’s city centre Prime Minister Olof Palme shot on the open road. Lennart Gustavsson was a simple strip policeman. Now he sits soon twenty years in the Palme Commission. There is still, even if they once by 300 to 12 officials shrunk. “I have made the banning,” says Gustavsson. After you have in the past year 150 new tips. But a success, the interior investigators so far away as at the beginning of their efforts. Around 18 000 tips and tracks they have. 234 persons who are themselves accused of fact, they did as a spinner or Wichtigtuer. The mass of documents collected by them is only one of which the Kennedy assassination and the Lockerbie attack surpassed. Between 400 000 and 600 000 pages include the files. But exactly do you do not, because the mountains of documents only with the help of a technique to the state in 1986 searchable. Repeats internal investigators had discussed all documents for the modern data processing program and making it accessible - perhaps still the famous needle in a haystack to find. But for the necessary effort is allegedly no money. We must indeed all the documents scanned.
PKK, Mossad, CIA?
The only thing so after twenty years with some certainty to know believes, is that the murder weapon, with a .357 caliber Magnum was committed.
Around 2200 murders in Sweden since the shots on Olof Palme has been perpetrated. 98 percent of them have been elucidated. Sweden is not a country where killers inside too long to walk on the street. But after twenty years of nothing, except the caliber of the firearm? If you lack in the hand, the flourishing speculation. With absolute certainty shelved could lay Lennart Gustavsson and his colleagues, most theories until today. How, for example, the very suspicion. Twelve days after the shooting, Victor Gunnarsson arrested Rechtsextremist and member of the European Workers’ Party (EAP). The evidence against him sufficient only for one week pre-trial detention. After his release he disappeared soon in the USA, 1994 where he was murdered. According to U.S. police are the “usual” slips in criminal milieu. But a local perpetrators stand - you can see, temporarily condemned Christer Pettersson - never in the centre of the interest of the Palme Commission. Such a fact had to have been foreigners. The Kurdish Workers’ Party PKK perhaps? Shortly before the Palme murder was in Stockholm one of its sympathisers for the execution of a “Traitor” to life in prison. The PKK accused Palme, in the Kurdish part of Ankara to question. Even 1999 heard Swedish prosecutors Abdullah Ocalan on the prison island of Imrali. The former PKK leader said only their own knowledge, but wanted a stake or perpetrator of the PKK Ausbrechergruppen not exclude. Or was it the fascist Croat Ustasha? The - always suspected - CIA or the Soviet KGB? Israel’s Mossad for example, because of Arafat’s support by Sweden? After the Israeli secret service had already 1948 the Swedish UN mediator Folke Bernadotte murdered. Or perhaps the Chilean security police Dina? The had eventually managed, the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier in Washington middle with a car bomb to kill and had allegedly already Palme 1979 at a meeting of the Socialist International in Madrid in sight (is it also a professional killer applied to him). Controversial Swedish arms transactions provided for further speculation. Motives have here Iran, Iraq and Pakistan can have.
Or the Swedish police?
The last exciting track, the Palme unit employed was the mid-nineties, the South African Connection.
Denkbares Tatmotiv: The strong political and financial support of the African National Congress (ANC) by Stockholm. No other Western head of state had Pretoria’s apartheid policy so sharply criticized as Palm. In addition, Sweden stood at the forefront of those states, which for a steady expansion of the UN sanctions against South Africa fought. The money, which the Socialist International, under the leadership of Swedish social democracy in the resistance against apartheid scholiast were also on arms purchases. A week before his murder Palme was a much-respected speech, in which he the apartheid regime with Hitler and the mass murder in the German concentration camps compared to tougher sanctions and calling. But even this lost track. Was its main author - the former South African secret service chief Eugene de Kock - just a Wichtigtuer, wanted to earn some money? Or had the Geheimdienstler with blood on the hands of his Aussagefreudigkeit an amnesty before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission had hoped, after the end of the apartheid regime had been? Lennart Gustavsson has long time specifically with the “police track”. By this argument, according to which the State in the murder of his hands in the game, there are different versions. They range from the Theory of a comprehensive anti-Palme conspiracy within the police or the secret to mere sabotage the investigation to the actual perpetrators - for whatever reason - to cover. Zusammengepuzzelt this track was particularly by the media and by private investigators, who over the years zusammentrugen a picture in which many, hardly understandable Fahndungspannen suddenly serve a useful purpose. In any event, they showed such a convincing scenario that a Commission of Inquiry 1999, the police verdonnerte, even among its own members to identify. The result is only through what has become known private search. There were several members of a right aktenkundige police camaraderie in the murder scene at night on nearby. For example, in the important first hours after the fact a phantom image of the alleged offender disseminated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office later said that it had a rather Fahndungserfolg. One of the first to the “police track” pursued (and the soon to no longer ausgelacht), Sven was Aner. The retired Press and television until last summer published its own information sheet for the Palme murder, the “Palme Nytt”, and remains convinced that the authorities “are unwilling, to find the true murderer.” A seventh of the Swedes believes in a Polizeikonspiration. Maybe speaks against this view only the opinion of a high police officials, the author of a decade ago Palme published book quoted: “Our troops would be such a conspiracy is not capable,” the official said: “it creates not even a complicated theft unaccounted for. “The question is whether MitwisserInnen given the reward of more than eight million francs would hold out their silence. So after twenty years of investigative work only two of the bullets from a .357 caliber Smith & Wesson Magnum revolver. But not even that is safe, since munitions specialists it is unlikely have declared that balls, a backbone and a sternum holes, so little deformed as this. In addition, they were only one or two days after the attack a few meters away from the crime scene had been found - each of private individuals. The police had overlooked. Or they were later placed there intentionally in order to mislead the investigators inside? Legal barred murder in Sweden after 25 years. Lennart Gustavsson has only five years.
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