a twist of Fate time.
How can today’s press conference in Sweden best beksrives. The theme is the Palm-the investigation and what should be done going forward. And the questions are many.
the Swedish police found the murder weapon, which for 34 years ago, the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in death? Police have cleared up who was responsible for the bloody killing on open street in Stockholm? Will the police now make arrests or the investigation finally closed down?
these are the four main issues, as many are waiting in excitement to get answered at the press conference, as the Swedish prosecutor’s office has summoned for Wednesday at 09.30.
on Wednesday morning, writes Aftonbladet to the Swedish government and the prosecutor in the case has had several meetings in recent days. At the same time, write to Olof Palmes sons have been briefed before today’s press conference.
But what can we really expect?
Ekstra Bladet has spoken with one of the danes, who know most about the Palme assassination. It is the historian, and cand. mag Donald Orris, who also has written a thesis on the killing of Olof Palme.
– of course It is hard to say what exactly will come forth at the press conference. I am leaning most to, that the conclusion reached at the meeting will be, that you now want to set the investigation. You will make a review of the people, which through time has been suspected to have killed Palme. They are all dead today, and therefore it will be reasonable to shut down the investigation and transfer the documents to the national archives, says Anders Orris to Ekstra Bladet.
Donald Orris also suggests that it would be natural to contact just the Swedish government prior to that that you intend to resign such a comprehensive investigation of a Swedish prime minister.
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the Addict Christer Pettersson was both convicted and acquitted for the murder of Palme. Picture: Anders Holmstrom
the chief Prosecutor Krister Petersson has, however, back in February stated the following in an interview on Swedish TELEVISION:
– I’m sure to be able to present what happened around the murder, and who is responsible for it.
On the question of whether there will be charges against a suspected offender, said the chief prosecutor, however:
I can’t say anything about – it is up to free interpretation, he says.
Historian Donald Orris is, however, somewhat sceptical of these statements.
– I’m not so sure that we get the message about who was responsible for the killing. There is talk about a severe burden of proof on that promise.
But there may of course be a joker in here. The technological development can, for example, have meant that, now are able to identify the weapon, as the two found the bullets originated from. It has not previously been able to.
There can also be found DNA traces on the Palmes coat, which you previously not have been able to analyze, ” says Anders Orris to Ekstra Bladet.
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On the drabsstedet in Stockholm have today requested a plaque for the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.Picture: TT News Agency
the Historian believes that the police and the public prosecution service may have a certain interest in bringing the matter up at the present time.
– On the way to the public to show that man really has made a last and decisive attempt to unravel the murder before you stop the investigation, says the Danish expert.
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According to the british newspaper The Guardian met up with the Swedish Olof Palme investigators of the south african intelligence services 18. march in Pretoria, and was entrusted with the documents that were relevant to the case.
It is currently unclear whether sagsdokumenterne contains new evidence, or whether it is simply a question of to finish the loose threads in the investigation.
the FACTS: the Mystery of the Palme-murder has been unresolved for 34 years
It is 34 years ago, that Sweden’s then-prime minister Olof Palme was shot and killed on the open street in Stockholm.
on Wednesday, Sweden is clarity about whether the investigation of the Palme assassination will be completed, or whether there will be charges in the case.
Here follows a timeline:
* 28. February 1986: Sweden’s 59-year-old prime minister, Olof Palme, killed by gunfire on the street in Stockholm on the way home from a cinema on foot. His wife, Lisbet Palme, will facilitate the event.
* December 1988: the Addict Christer Pettersson was arrested in his home in Sollentuna and are accused of the killing.
* July 1989: the district Court in Stockholm in relation Christer Pettersson to life imprisonment in prison for the killing.
* November 1989: Christer Pettersson to be acquitted in the court of appeal.
* May 1998: Sweden’s supreme court rejects an application from the prosecution to re-examination acquittal.
* 29. september 2004: Christer Pettersson dies, 57 years old.
* 25. February 2016: on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the assassination invites the Swedish authorities to the press conference. However, they have not actually new about the investigation.
* 1. February 2017: the chief Prosecutor Krister Petersson takes over the investigation.
* 10. June 2020: the Press conference about the decision on the charges in drabssagen.
Sources: Dagens Nyheter, SVT.
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