The debate post expresses the writer’s opinions.
But Lena Andersson’s look at the Palme murder is more ideologically oriented than many of the titles dealing with the murder of Sweden’s prime minister.
For example:
Is social democracy a step towards or away from communism? If so, how does this relate to Olof Palme’s view of the West’s relationship with the Soviet Union? In a short passage, Arne Treholt is brought into the action, under the name Terje Fyrbåk.
I’ve never thought about it before, but this might be a crossword puzzle:
Treholt and Palme – leaders of the Nordic social democracy – undoubtedly shared a lot of ideas about the East/West question. Could it be true that they had no contact? Treholt was arrested in 1984, Palme was murdered in 1986. This is not a conspiracy theory, just a timely question.
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The literature surrounding the Palme assassination soon fills as many shelf meters as the Watergate scandal and the Kennedy assassination. It’s not the least bit strange. A prime minister in peaceful Sweden – shot and killed on an open street, in the middle of central Stockholm, 28 February 1986. Almost 40 years later, the murder remains unsolved.
Two years ago, the police thought they had identified the killer. But since Stig Engström, the “Man of Scandia”, had died, a stop was put to further investigation – well, investigation under public authority.
Arild Rønsen
Editor of the music newspaper PULS, which he has been for 30 years. He has previously been a journalist in Klassekampen and TV 2. He has written five books about Vålerenga, and translated several biographies (Neil Young, Madonna, David Beckham). Rønsen is a trained typographer, and has a long history as a performing musician. Today mainly as a vocalist in “Dylan Bonanza”.
The “Palmerummet” no longer exists. But private investigations cannot be stopped by a public sentence. Fortunately, we have a free press, just as we have curious writers.
The Swedish author who believes himself to have come closest to solving the murder is Leif GW Persson.
Not even the seasoned criminologist and brilliant writer GW comes close to coming up with conclusive evidence.
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The only thing that everyone commenting on the case seems to agree on is that the police’s work in the initial phases is failing – and something so serious. The head of the Palm Group, Hans Holmér, had no background as an investigator in murder cases.
He messed it up from the start, believing that the Kurdish resistance movement PKK was behind the murder. Then it became the South Africa track and the Palestine track and the CIA track. And Säpo.
The murder of the most important voice in Scandinavian foreign policy simply could not have been committed by a “lone wolf”. But then the drug addict Christer Pettersson was arrested and convicted of the murder in Stockholm tingsrätt – before he was acquitted in Svea hovrätt. Then the calendar showed November 2, 1989. Three and a half years after the fatal shots on Sveavägen, the police stood on bare ground.
Now the “Säpo” track became more and more relevant. Was Sweden’s prime minister killed by “his own people”? In the conspiratorial environment, it is included in the picture that Hans Holmér made his debut as a crime writer with the book “Olof Palme är skyuten!” Try reading the title backwards: SÄPO!
Is it possible that the Swedish security police were behind the murder? The longer time passes after the murder, the more it opens up for virtually all possible “solutions”.
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This is where Lena Andersson takes the floor. Was Olof Palme’s “fling” with the Soviet Union of such a nature that he should resign as soon as possible? Since he did not do it voluntarily; what measures had to be taken?
Was the murder agreed upon at a meeting in Paris, where parts of the leadership of Sweden’s Social Democratic Workers’ Party participated?
“We’re meeting this weekend not sure what it’s going to turn out to be. We’re still not sure.” Did everything get out of control, more or less on purpose?
Did the Palme couple talk to the killer before the murder? Was Palme, without bodyguards, on his way to a conspiratorial meeting with “Soviet friends”? Was the “deep state” behind the murder?
Lena Andersson introduces a 90-year-old professor who has a nephew who is supposed to have seen it all – the murder up close. But he can’t tell, because then he reveals a marital sidestep.
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“Once again I was seized with disgust at having been dragged down into this black hole of speculation”, writes Lena Andersson.
Towards the end, the author wonders if this should even become a book? Maybe she’s on to something.
“Korypheene” is occasionally entertaining reading, although it never becomes very good. It is certain, however, that Palme’s killer will not be identified.
In that sense, it falls into the fold of “far-reaching thoughts about the murder of Olof Palme.”
LENA ANDERSSON
Coryphaene – a conspiracy novel
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