Olof Palme

[Carsten Wiethoff]

Several things in this Belgrade connection are interesting:
- The informant, Vinko Sindičić, has been a hitman himself: (from Wikipedia)

Nikola Å tedul is a Croatian emigrant who was the target of an attempted assassination in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1988. Å tedul had been the president the Croatian Statehood Movement, campaigning for Croatian independence from Yugoslavia.
The assassin Vinko Sindičić arrived in Britain with a Swiss passport. He received the gun and silencer he used for the murder attempt from the Yugoslav embassy.[SUP][1][/SUP] Early on the morning of October 20, 1988, Štedul, who was walking his dog, was shot at four times by Sindičić.[SUP][2][/SUP] Štedul survived the shooting, while Sindičić was arrested at Heathrow Airport. The Yugoslav embassy subsequently provided the alibi that Sindičić was in the country watching the Scotland-Yugoslavia football match on October 19. However, residue from the firearm was found on Sindičić's skin, and after an eleven day trial he was found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to 15 years in jail.[SUP][1][/SUP]
The assassination attempt was subject of a 1994 movie by Scottish Television titled The Yugoslav Hitman.[SUP][3][/SUP]

- As far as I am aware of, there has been no connection between Olof Palme and the Yugoslav Secret Service before Sindicic told his story in 2011.

- There is no motive given. Which may mean that the Yugoslav killer worked for interests that were not Yugoslav at all. Similar to the South Africans involved.

I tend to give at least some credibility to this, but more interesting would be to know, whether the order to kill Palme came from Washington, Tel Aviv or somewhere else.