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Twenty-five years to the day after the assassination of Olof Palme, Svenska Dagbladet leads with “This is how Sweden remembers the murder," reproducing its front page from February 28, 1986, the day the Prime Minister was murdered. The newspaper notes how this event changed Swedish society. "The fact that the Prime Minister was shot dead in the street [in the centre of Stockholm] wiped away for good the image of Sweden as a safe country", Svenska Dagbladet writes. The assassination under similar circumstances of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh, in 2003, has meanwhile "permanently established an image of a country where the highest political representatives are killed." The country "has still not recovered from this trauma" writes the newspaper, a trauma reinforced by the fact that the murderer has never been identified. According to a psychologist of disasters at the University of Uppsala, “a crisis”, in fact, “is not over until all the questions have been answered.”
