Gains Reported in Palme Investigation
Swedish police Wednesday reported important progress in their investigation of the February slaying of Prime Minister Olof Palme, but they refused to disclose details.
Leif Hallberg, a spokesman for the investigation, told a reporter that detectives are “nearing a point of certainty” in the case.
“We have a pretty good picture of the slaying but we need to get the picture more in focus,” Hallberg said in a telephone interview. “Heavy work remains that may take weeks and perhaps months.”
Palme was shot in the back on a downtown Stockholm street as he and his wife walked home from a movie theater the night of Feb. 28.
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