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Verdens Største Historie - afsnit 75: Interview med Klarabergsgatanvidnet!

·1 hr 14 min·5 clips

A witness describes three panicked men running past her on the night Olof Palme was murdered, one screaming 'He shouldn't have killed him'.

This episode of 'Det Hemmeligste Af Det Hemmelige' focuses on the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. Hosts Anders Christiansen and Christian Kirk Muff present an interview with a key witness, referred to as Clara Bergskattevittnet. She recounts seeing three men running in panic on Klarabergsgatan shortly before hearing news of the murder, with one screaming 'He shouldn't have killed him' twice. The witness later discovered her official police statement contained at least five serious errors, including misstating the number of men and omitting their panicked state. She has contacted police on multiple anniversaries but has never been formally interviewed. The hosts reveal that the officer who took her initial statement, Åke Vedin, had previously worked for the military intelligence service IB. They then contextualize her account within a broader pattern of witness testimony suppression. They discuss other witnesses: Ulla S., who saw two men with walkie-talkies at Gamla Stan tunnel station and was later told by police to forget it; Magnus Prim, who saw a man with a communication radio walking from the murder scene; and press photographer Åke Malmström, who overheard a cryptic radio exchange about the Prime Minister being shot. The hosts analyze a 1986 internal police analysis concluding at least three people were involved in the murder, which was never used. They delve into a 'forgotten tip' about a joint police-military exercise involving paratroopers from Karlsborg simulating an infiltration and assassination in Stockholm that same night. An anonymous policeman's account from 1987 describes a similar, violent exercise that got out of control. The hosts suggest this exercise scenario could explain the walkie-talkie sightings and the witness's heard phrase. They connect individuals like police officer Ulf Helin, placed in the police alarm center that night, to radio expertise and volunteer organizations. The episode argues that the consistent dismissal and alteration of these witness statements point not to incompetence but to a deliberate effort to obscure a conspiracy involving state actors.

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