Carl Gustaf Christer Pettersson was a Swedish criminal who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. In 1989 he was convicted of the murder in district court but acquitted on appeal the following year.
Police photo of Christer Pettersson
Pettersson depicted in street art
Assassination of Olof Palme
On 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET, Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbeth Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards with them.
Flowers left at the site of the assassination on the following day
Olof Palme in the early 1970s
Grand cinema.
Crossing of Sveavägen–Tunnelgatan where Palme was shot.