Assassination of Olof Palme - Stockholm, Sweden - Infamous Crime Scenes on Waymarking.com

The assassination of the prime-minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, caused a shock wave across the world. This peaceful man like to live a normal life as frequently as possible and it was in one of occasions that a bullet ended abruptly his life. He was returning home with his wife, after attending an evening movie session, walking in one of the main streets of Stockholm without any protection. A killer shot him and ran away.

From Wikipedia:

"The assassination of Olof Palme (Swedish: Palmemordet, the Palme murder), the Prime Minister of Sweden, took place on 28 February 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden, at 23:21 hours Central European Time (22:21 UTC). Palme was fatally wounded by gunshots while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time.

Although more than 130 people have confessed to the murder, the case remains unsolved, and a number of theories as to who carried out the murder have been proposed. Christer Pettersson, a substance abuser who previously had been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, on appeal to Svea Court of Appeal he was acquitted. Pettersson died in 2004, legally declared not guilty of the Palme assassination.

Despite Olof Palme's position as prime minister, he sought to live as ordinary a life as possible. He would often go out without any bodyguard protection and the night of his murder was one such occasion. Walking home from the Grand Cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen, close to midnight on February 28, 1986, the couple were attacked by a lone gunperson. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme.

Police said that a taxi-driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm. Two girls sitting in a car close to the scene of the shooting tried to help the prime minister. He was rushed to a hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival at 00:06 CET on March 1, 1986.

The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan and disappeared."

For all the details of the crime, I advice you the complete reading of the article: (visit link)

Date of crime: 02/28/1986 Public access allowed: yes Fee required: no Web site: [Web Link]

Visit Instructions:
To post a visit log for waymarks in this category, you must have personally visited the waymark location. When logging your visit, please provide a note describing your visit experience, along with any additional information about the waymark or the surrounding area that you think others may find interesting.

We especially encourage you to include any pictures that you took during your visit to the waymark.

Recent Visits/Logs:

Date Logged Log User Rating   04/15/2024 MTFK.papua visited it 08/10/2023 Walking Boots visited it 12/10/2022 CADS11 visited it 08/11/2018 Waldog visited it 09/24/2015 este-cache visited it 12/08/2013 BandLEngstrom visited it 04/29/2013 OneMatchFox visited it 12/08/2012 alynx visited it 09/27/2012 famaxe visited it

View all visits/logs