New Trial Demanded in Premier’s Killing

The wife of assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme demanded the retrial of the man cleared of her husband’s murder after he admitted in a newspaper article on Saturday to shooting Palme.

Palme was shot dead in central Stockholm on February 28, 1986.

“I have talked with Lisbet Palme . . . and she demands a new trial,” one of Palme’s closest associates, Ulf Dahlsten, told the Sunday edition of the Dagens Nyheter daily.

Christer Pettersson was convicted of the murder in 1989, but he was acquitted later that year.

But in the Expressen tabloid article, Pettersson was quoted as saying, “Sure as hell it was me who shot [Palme], but they can never nail me for it. The weapon is gone.”