The Unlikely Murderer

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Absorbing and extremely well crafted theoretical scenario to the murder of the Swedish Prime Minister in 1986. Not the Swedish enforcement agencies finest moment by any stretch. It beggars belief how they were side-tracked by conspiracy theories and not looking closer to home even if this scenario is wrong. It is extremely doubtful that it will ever be proven one way or the other. It was a very good and interesting watch.

It was always a strange assassination because in a decade full of terrorism a prime-minister walked the streets without bodyguards. It's almost incomprehensible then and now. And however peaceful Sweden is/was the reality is that you are always going to come across an Oswald type oddball who happened to have a gun. Prominent people attract these types and there is no way around that. The movie needed some serious editing to cut it down and it needed to explore the motivation more - it was never clear and everything got put in the proverbial pot. It's strange to see a world without CCTV cameras and smartphones. If this happened today there would be dozens of cameras on him before the event and dozens of phones on him after it. He wouldn't have stood a chance.

Apart from the fact that Engström hasn´t been convicted, almost everything else is authentic. The police was so "incompetent". They mostly tried to pin it on an alcoholic. The guy died recently and journalists went through his diaries. It wasn´t him. The Engström theory appeared recently, when the latest investigator went through the material before the case was closed. It was conducted so incompetently. But Engström was dead and could not be trialed anymore. What was avoided by all means was to investigate the Stay Behind / Gladio track, even though they had premises in the Skandia house and had been seen in town with walkie talkies. "They were chasing drug addicts." Why does no one react to vigilantes taking the law into their hands and why do anti-communist vigilantes chase drug addicts? But what happened was that Sweden changed fundamentally then. Many financial interests benefited from Palme being cleared out of the way. The path to neoliberalism was open.