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PRESS RELEASE MURDER OF OLOF PALME:

28 February 1986 Stockholm - Sweden

, MURDER OF MAHMUT BILGILI:

5 February 1987 Hengelo/Matkelo The Netherlands

Is Sweden willing (or allowed) to ever solve the Killing of Olof Palme? Hardly anyone will have failed to notice that in Sweden the maximum period for prosecuting serious offences has been lifted and that this was apparently motivated by heapproaching endin 2011 – of the time allowed by law for tracking down and prosecuting those responsible for the assassination of Olof Palme in 1986. Is that a good thing?

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பகல் Diar Pulie

For us - Dolf van Soest, a retired detective superintendent, anddevelopment is highly surprising. After all, it suggests that there has been progress in the case and that the end of the period allowed for prosecution could put a premature end to the ongoing investigation. Our experience of the Swedish investigation in recent years has been totally different

For many years now, we have been engaged in a journalistic investigation of the unsolved murder of the Turkish lawyer Mahmut Bilgili in Holland in 1987. During the course of our investigation, we quickly discovered a connection to the Palme assassination. In 2006, we set out the results of our investigation in our book Oh was hij het? De voorspelde moord op Olof Palme en de 'Dutch Connection' (Oh, was it him? The Predicted Murder of Olof Palme and the "Dutch Connection"). As we explain in the book, the Bilgili murder was unmistakably a targeted PKK killing: a kangaroo court in the Netherlands found Bilgili responsible for “leaks" leading to the arrest of PKK members in Sweden in the Palme case in late 1986/ early 1987.

We believe that Bilgili's leading position in the PKK meant that he was aware of that organisation's involvement in the Palme assassination and might have wanted to distance himself from that involvement. That the PKK's own investigators decided so quickly that Bilgili was responsible (in February 1987) was partly due to the fact that the people arrested were quickly released without being brought before the courts so that their guilt or innocence could not be established. Their rapid release was incidentally due to “miscommunication" between the public prosecution department and the Stockholm police.

Our investigation ultimately led to a leading PKK figure at the time, Huseyin Yildirim, informing us in 2005 that he no longer ruled out the possibility that the organisation, led by Abdullah Öcalan, was responsible for the death of Olof Palme. That is in line with previous statements by Öcalan himself: after being arrested and extradited to Turkey, Öcalan pointed to Yildirim as being the person who ordered Palme's assassination. So one thing that they agree on is the involvement of the PKK!

With that fact in mind and given that the Swedish investigation had been dragging on for years without producing any result, it seemed to us logical that - unlike in the years before - we could at least reckon on the Swedish authorities now receiving us or listening to us with a certain level of interest. After all, our efforts were aimed at breathing new life into that never ending investigation, which would also help the Dutch Bilgili case (which can now no longer be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations). In our view, it was still not too late: if all the countries involved were to join forces and reinvestigate the leads that had been revealed, a breakthrough would still be possible!