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Sven Olof Joachim palm (* 30 January 1927 in Stockholm; "Â 28 February 1986 ebenda) was Swedish Social Democrat and twice prime minister of Sweden (1969-1976 and 1982-1986).
Olof palm came from a largecivil and conservative family. The family of its father originated from the Netherlands; its nut/mother was a baltendeutsche Freiin of Knieriem. During its academic years in Stockholm it joined the social-democratic student association and 1952-53 was it a chairman the Swedish high pupil shank. 1953 he became a secretary of the prime minister days Erlander. Rather rapidly a close co-operation between the prime minister and that developed 25 years younger Olof palm. 1963 it became Council of State, 1965 Ministers and 1969 - after the resignation days Erlanders - party chairman and prime minister. To the choice loss of 1976 the social-democratic party went into the opposition, from which it attributed Olof palm 1982 to the government bank. Its second period as prime ministers ended abruptly with its murder 1986.
Olof palm was considerably involved in the reform politics and of the 60's 50's. It had participated even in forming out the ideology of the "strong society", which coined/shaped days Erlanders working. After its assumption of office 1969 tried palm to continue the policy days Erlanders met however several difficulties. On the one hand the constitutional reform and the new parliamentary situation made a stable co-operation more difficult after the choice of 1973 over the block borders away, on the other hand one economic problems, particularly after the oil crisis 1973, overshadowed the social reform work. The nuclear power debate divided the own party and brought a new political factor in the play, the environmental policy and the green motion, and the unionized demand for introduction of employee funds intensified the contrasts to the civil parties.
Like no different one Olof palm coined/shaped however the picture of Sweden abroad by its engaged foreign policy: by its hard criticism at the Viet Nam war, as UN mediators in the Iran Iraq war and by its international disarmament initiatives, like for example within the framework the palm commission. Beyond that palm had close personal relations with European politicians such as Willy Brandt and Bruno Kreisky.
On 28 February 1986 around 23:23 clock was murdered Olof palm at the age by 59 years at the corner in the city center of Stockholm. It was with his Mrs. Lisbet without police protection after a cinema attendance Mozart "the brothers Mozart von Suzanne the east) on the way home, when it was shot from next proximity. Although it was brought very fast into a hospital, palm was explained briefly there before midnight as dead. Its wife suffered light injuries. At the scene a Gedenktafel reminds of the murder.
It succeeded to a Passanten first to pursue the assassin it lost it however. The following police employment started sluggishly. The Stockholm police head at that time Hans entangled itself into contradictions. It indicated for example at the time of the assassination attempt in a hotel in boron length to have although it had never been there. book "death in Stockholm - the murder case Olof palm" was withdrawn by the author after violent meeting with hostility; among other things the assumption arose, which was Swedish state police from right-wing extremists infiltrated, had the determinations kidnapped or is even even into the assassination attempt complicated. To latter assumption among other things Mitschnitte of radio traffic refer at the night 28 of February 1986.
The search for the author came only extremely sluggishly on, since the Stockholm city police and the Swedish federal police argued first for a long time about the competence. Besides the police references of a witness did not follow, who wants to have recognized few minutes before the shots on the Swedish Prime Ministers suspecting in the entrance of a business by the It was with a friend on the way, wanted after the time to inquire, recognized in the man a member of that Fitness Studios, into it trained, and spoke it - because it knew that it addressed Finnish - also on Finnish. Thereupon the man turned according to data of the later witness, covers his face, while from a Walkie Talkie, which it led with itself, on Finnish the instruction was to be heard, it is inconspicuously to behave.
On the fact that with the determinations it was geschlampt points likewise that the two cartridges were found not by the police, but by Passanten. Alleged RAF members professed themselves to the act, which had been committed from revenge at the Swedish behavior in the case of the occupation of the German message in Sweden. The police considered these statements improbable.
First also the Kurdish worker's party was suspected. A trace led besides to South Africa. The there apartheid regime, against which palm repeated and engaged had expressed, to have suspected, the murder at palm in order to have given. But nearly three years passed, without the police made crucial progress with the search for Palmes murderer. Only at the end of of 1988 could present the responsible chief investigator a suspect. Drug-dependent Christer Pettersson that relevantly vorbestraften and, whose alibi had proven for the questionable night as wrong, concerned.
The alleged author Pettersson was spoken 1989 of the murder for guilty, acquitted however in second instance, because the investigators with the crucial confrontation of the widow Palmes one type had given, which referred to Petterson. Petterson died on 29 September 2004 in Stockholm at the consequences of its drug craze.
The unsettled murder turned out in September 2003 in connection with the assassination attempt on Anna Lindh again into the public discussion: Also with this second murder at a prominent personality of the Swedish policy within fewer years could not the author first be free of doubts determined, what led to substantial criticism at the work of the Swedish police and evoked with many humans the memory of the murder case palm again.
The murder case Olof palm is not enlightened until today and the act to 2011 would fall under the statute of limitations.
Attention excited the film hunts mordet palm, which on 26 February 2006 on the Swedish television one radiated. There Petterson confesses the murder and describes that it concerned a tragic mistake, because he should kill someone else the drug dealer Sigge Cedergreen.
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