I think the evidence is that he was at the scene and lied to his teeth when questioned. He had weapon trainig, he was a right winger who hated Palme, he eventually took his own life.
People have been sent to the electric chair for less.
People have been sent to the electric chair for less.
He was after all elected with a majority?
Edit: This was diffrent times. Lots of people said things like "i wish he was dead" and worse things. Noone called out such talk like we do now. When I starded as aprentice in a factory about 9 years after this there was always threats of violence among workers, people was called racial slurs to their face, women was always "courted" in crude ways. Noone took such things seriously at the time.
That your class position has moved from the working class to the professional managerial class does not mean the working class has adopted the PMC’s speech codes.
Note that it did not take much to be conservative in Sweden in those days. Cannot be compared with the current US meaning of the word. If you thought that paying less than 50 percent of your salary in taxes was fair, you were basically conservative.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme#Socialdemokraternas...