Sweden has long claimed to be one of the safest countries in the world. 国民普遍安静谦和，做事慢条斯理，一派岁月静好的样子。
However, 35 years ago, in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in the streets!
Olof Palme
那是1986年2月28日隆冬的一个晚上，时任瑞典首相奥洛夫·帕尔梅和妻子利斯贝特刚刚看完喜剧《莫扎特兄弟》，从电影院走出来，在街头等着同看一场电影的孩子出来。
就在这时，一个人影从奥洛夫·帕尔梅的身后疾走过来，冲着帕尔梅的头部开了一枪，又朝着一旁的利斯贝特开了一枪，所幸未打中。 来不及反应的帕尔梅应声倒地。
Due to the sparse number of passers-by on the street, Palme did not have the habit of carrying a guard, and as a result, the gunman left the scene with his hands and feet and disappeared into the night.
Olof Palme and wife Lisbert
This evil bullet suddenly shattered Sweden's usual tranquility.
要知道这是自1792年古斯塔夫三世国王以来，首次在瑞典发生国家领导人遇害案，消息一经传出，在斯堪的纳维亚半岛产生了巨大影响。
As a result, the "largest criminal investigation in Sweden" and a 30-year long manhunt interviewed 10,000 suspects, inspected 4,000 vehicles, 134 individuals confessed to the crime, and 29 police officers were involved, but in the end nothing was found, and the killers remained at large.
Until Palme's wife, Lisbert, died in 2018, she didn't know who killed her husband.
让人不禁联想到60年代发生的美国总统肯尼迪刺杀后，谁是凶手依旧成谜。
The Prime Minister's family
Although Sweden is rich in country, it is not large in geographical area and has a general sense of presence in international politics. But in Palme's time, he was a well-known political figure on the international stage.
Palme is different from the previous politicians, who only care about his own acres and three points of land, he is very concerned about conflicts in any hot spot on the earth, Vietnam is also in charge, South Africa is also in charge, and iran is also worried about him, but he just ignores his own personal safety.
他反对特殊化，轻车简从，从来不让警卫在工作之外对他提供保护。 Perhaps, he did not even think that he himself could become the target of a terrorist assassination.
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Olof Palme was born on 30 January 1927 in Stockholm, Sweden, to a prominent family. 从小，帕尔梅体弱多病，但天资颇高，孩提时代就学会了德语和英语。
In high school he attended the Sigtunas Koran Humanities Academy, one of sweden's few boarding high schools, and passed the university entrance exam at the age of 17 with a high score.
上大学前，他加入炮兵开始服兵役。 瑞典的义务兵役制度比其他国家严格，欧洲有些国家可以用从事某些许多人不愿意做的工作来代替服兵役，但瑞典不存在这种通融办法。
After two years in the army, he came to the United States to study at Kenyan College in Ohio and received a bachelor's degree, before returning to Stockholm. He received a law degree from Stockholm University in 1951 and was president of the Students' Federation.
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In 1954, at the age of 27, Palme became president of the Social Democratic Party, secretary to Prime Minister Elander and chief secretary of the Prime Minister's Office as a rising political star. This was an important step in Palme's political career.
In 1958, at the age of 30, Palme became the youngest member of the Swedish parliament at the time.
On the political path, it is the same, one step is fast, step by step.
帕尔梅是两度出任瑞典首相的，分别为1969年至1976年、1982年至1986年间，第一次出任首相时年仅42岁，就已登上了仕途的巅峰，成为当时欧洲最年轻的首相。
为了充分了解帕尔梅被暗杀的死因，我们得先了解一下他的政策和当时的社会政治气候。
Overall, Palme was a nationalist who made the following claims when he became prime minister in 1953:
Eliminate colonialism, establish a new economic world order, combat racism, the dream of equal rights and democratize education.
To put it bluntly, external is independence and autonomy, and internal is social equality.
A universalist ideology now deeply rooted in Sweden in all corners of society is what palme's government advocated.
Behind the high welfare provided by the government is actually the government to forcibly control the difference to achieve universalism, so there is a small gap between rich and poor, extreme equality between men and women, and the distribution of various medical and educational resources.
Of course, this touched the interests of most liberals and conservatives, and there were his opponents at home and abroad, for example, he openly called out the United States and the Soviet Union, and his remarks and views were quite sharp.
Perhaps it was the youthful triumph, and his aggressive and outspoken personal style gave his political enemies at home and abroad a headache.
In April 1983, Palme summoned the Soviet ambassador to Sweden to strongly protest to him that Soviet submarines had invaded the waters of Sweden's Holloway a year and a half earlier. As prime minister, Palme showed the courage of sovereignty above all else, even ordering naval helicopters to drop depth charges at submarines of unknown nationality.
Palme was also active in international affairs, opposing not only the apartheid system in South Africa, but also the entire Cold War, including the Vietnam War in the United States.
In 1968, long before he became prime minister, Palmey, as minister of education, took to the streets with the Vietnamese ambassador to Sweden at the time to protest the indiscriminate bombing of Hanoi by the United States.
他的这一行动成了当时报纸的头号新闻，要知道瑞典一向恪守中立原则，甚至在两次世界大战期间也没有打破过传统，害得瑞典国会立即要求他辞去大臣职务。
Parme also strongly condemned the Soviet occupation of the Czech Republic by force, which led to the complete failure of the Czech Prague Spring reform plan, including the subsequent Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
He criticized Spain's dictator Franco regime, calling it a "damn murderer."
He also supported the African National Congress (ANC) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and, not in words of solidarity, but in real money.
He also played a mediator role in the wars in Iran and Iraq.
Palme and then-UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (left)
In short, parme had his own distinct political views on the hot issues of his time.
This also led to his murder being given a lot of international conspiracy theories.
In fact, at that time, there were two suspects, one named Stegernstrom was the most suspicious. 他当过兵，是射击俱乐部成员，经常工作到很晚，常年酗酒，还在案发地附近的保险公司工作，而且，非常不喜欢帕尔梅及其政治观点。
但苦于没有证据以及他前后矛盾的证词，警方随后给其贴上不可靠、前后矛盾的证人标签。 In 2000, Ernstrom committed suicide. This thread is broken.
The other suspect was named Patterson. After Palme's attack, his wife Lisbette was injured and Paterson was subsequently identified as the gunman. After Paterson's arrest, he was convicted of murder in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison.
Patterson
然而，仅仅几个月后，佩特森在上诉中被释放，理由是缺乏证据，包括凶器至今未找到，奇葩的是，佩特森还因此获得了约5万美元的赔偿。 Peterson also died in 2004.
In this way, the Palme murder case eventually became an open case. 去年，鉴于嫌疑人已经离世，斯德哥尔摩检方宣布结束帕尔梅遇刺案调查。
A commemorative plaque on Sveigen Avenue where Palme was killed
The unsolved case has also become a wound in the hearts of the Swedish people that has never healed.