Swedish examiners have named the man who they state killed former Swedish PM Olof Palme in 1986, finishing long stretches of a secret.
They said it was Stig Engstrom, a visual fashioner known as “Skandia Man” who executed himself in 2000.
As a result they were shutting the examination concerning Palme’s passing, Chief Prosecutor Krister Petersson said.
Palme was shot in the back as he strolled home from the film with his wife in Stockholm.
He had just dismissed his security group for the afternoon. The death occurred on Sweden’s busiest street and in excess of twelve observers saw a man shoot the shots before fleeing the scene.
Palme’s child Marten disclosed to Swedish radio that he accepted prosecutors had arrived at the correct conclusion and were right to close the case.
A large number of individuals have been met over Palme’s passing. A unimportant criminal was indicted for the executing yet the decision was later dismissed.
What Did The Prosecutor Say?
“The individual is Stig Engstrom,” Mr Petersson told a news meeting. “Since the individual is dead, I can’t bring charges against him and have chosen to close the investigation.”
The homicide weapon has not been found and no new criminological proof has been revealed, yet investigators looking at Engstrom’s statements to police concluded that his version of events did not add up.
“How he acted was the way we accept the killer would have acted,” Mr Petersson added.
Stig Engstrom had not initially been a focus for the investigation, the examiner stated, yet when agents investigated his experience they discovered he was acquainted with utilizing weapons, having been in the military, and was an individual from a shooting club.
In his neighborhood was likewise part of a hover of pundits of Palme’s strategies and family members said he had a negative perspective on the PM.
Engstrom additionally had long running monetary issues and a growing issue with alcohol.
Anyway investigators still did not have a “clear picture” of Engstrom’s motive for killing Palme, Mr Petersson said.
Who Was Stig Engstrom?
Stig Engstrom got referred to as Skandia Man as he had worked for the Skandia insurance agency. He had been working late on the night of the homicide at the association’s HQ close the crime scene.
Engstrom was known to have been available at the area of the murder. He was questioned by police a few times however was immediately dismissed as a suspect.
Mr Petersson said witness depictions of the shooter correlated with Engstrom’s appearance and witnesses also contradicted Engstrom’s own record of his developments at the scene.
Engstrom lied about the minutes after the murder, even, claiming he had tried to revive Palme. He in the end killed himself in 2000.
He was first distinguished as a suspect by columnist Thomas Pettersson, and police began investigating Engstrom 18 years after his death.
Stig Engstrom’s ex disclosed to Expressen paper in 2018 that she had been addressed by investigators in 2017. At the time she said the suspicion of his guilt was out of the question.
“He was an over the top defeatist. He wouldn’t hurt a fly,” she said.
How was Olof Palme Killed?
The Swedish head administrator had released his watchmen on a Friday night on 28 February 1986 and had gone to the film with his better half Lisbet, their child Marten and his girlfriend.
Walking with his significant other after the film on Stockholm’s busiest road, Sveavagen, they were attacked by a gunman from behind.
Palme, 59, was shot in the back and died instantly. Bullets were recovered at the scene from a .357 Magnum handgun, but the gun was never found.
For What Reason Was Nobody Gotten?
One man went to prison. Indicted criminal Christer Pettersson – who has no connection to the prosecutor – was recognized in a line-up by Lisbet Palme and imprisoned for life in 1989.
But he was quickly released on appeal as no motive had been established and no weapon retrieved. Pettersson died in 2004.
More than of 130 people have admitted to the homicide, the leader of the examination Hans Melander said.
Who Were Palme’s Enemies?
A charming head administrator who drove Sweden’s Social Democratic gathering, Palme was also outspoken on a few global issues.
At home he had irritated entrepreneurs with changes and spoken out against to atomic power.
He was disparaging of the Soviet intrusion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the US bombarding of North Vietnam and had assaulted South Africa’s “gruesome” regime of apartheid.
What Theories Have There Been?
The case has dogged Swedish police for decades. For years it fixated prestigious creator Stieg Larsson, who composed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Among the theories put forward throughout the years, Palme was assassinated because:
He stood up against apartheid and funded the African National Congress (ANC) – Swedish police made a trip to South Africa in 1996 to investigate the claim
Palme had found that Swedish arms firm Bofors had utilized pay off to set up an Indian weapons deal
Palme’s government had declared the Kurdish militant PKK group terrorists Lisbet Palme died on in 2018 without knowing conclusively who killed her husband.
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