The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

by Jan Stocklassa

No one really knew how that decision was reached, but clearly it wouldn’t have been possible without support from the country’s highest-ranking politicians.

Or maybe just complacency on their parts.

should therefore have resulted in Säpo raising the threat level for Palme’s security team, which might have prevented the assassination from taking place.

Two of how many threats he normally received?

If necessary, Eriksson also had Olof Palme’s ear.

That's a big assumption

The killer took the weapon with him, so the question was: What did he do with it? Obviously he could have ditched it for good by chucking it over the railing and into the Baltic Sea on a ferry ride to Finland or something like that. But an equally plausible reason for him to take the weapon with him was that he viewed it as a trophy. The gun that changed Swedish history would have some value to a person who murdered Sweden’s prime minister for his politics. Less so if he was a professional killer who had done it for the money. Since the gun had not been found, that increased the odds of a political motive and, therefore, the

This is a tortured bit of logic built on unsupportable assumptions

Since a fanatic would be psychologically unstable,

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On February 21, 1986, the conspirators missed a chance to strike when Olof Palme gave a speech with the ANC’s Oliver Tambo at a conference called the Swedish People’s Parliament Against Apartheid at The People’s House (Folkets Hus) on Sveavägen.

Did they miss the opportunity or just choose not to strike at an event which would make the motive obvious?

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