What is Assassination of Olof Palme?
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox civilian attack | title = Assassination of Olof Palme | partof = | image = Palme Trauer 1986.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Flowers left at the site of the assassination on the following day | map = | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = | location = [[Sveavägen]]–[[Tunnelgatan]], [[Stockholm]], Sweden | target = [[Olof Palme]] | coordinates = {{Coord|59.3366|N|18.0628|E|format=dms|name=Olof Palme Assassination|region:SE_type:event_scale:2000|display=inline,title}} | date = 28 February 1986 | time = 23.21 | timezone = [[Central European Time]] | type = [[Assassination]] | fatalities = 1 killed ([[Olof Palme]]) | injuries = 1 wounded ([[Lisbet Palme]]) | victims = <!-- or | victim = --> | perpetrators= Unknown | susperps = <!-- or | susperp = --> | weapons = Probably a revolver ([[.357 Magnum]]) | numparts = <!-- or | numpart = --> | dfens = <!-- or | dfen = --> | motive = | website = <!-- URL|example.com}} --> }} On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 [[Central European Time|CET]] (22:21 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]), '''[[Olof Palme]]''', [[Prime Minister of Sweden|Prime Minister]] of [[Sweden]], was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife [[Lisbet Palme]] on the central [[Stockholm]] street [[Sveavägen]].<ref>[http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c4/12/44/6a2655da.pdf The investigation committee report (1999:88), p.&nbsp;173] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202132145/http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c4/12/44/6a2655da.pdf |date=2 December 2007 }} (PDF) {{in lang|sv}}</ref> Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time. [[Christer Pettersson]] was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, he was [[Acquittal|acquitted]]. Pettersson died in late-September