One of the saddest stories in Swedish political history. She was a social democratic politician who was considered a shoe-in for becoming the new prime minister. Respected and supported across party lines, dedicated to her work but with a human side that appealed to many. She was murdered in the middle of Stockholm, at NK (a shopping mall) by a mentally ill man. He had seen her on posters around town and thought she was somehow out to get him. Her death on September 11 2003 made a lot of politicians think twice about the openness with which they had been living their lives. It also brought back a lot of memories from an earlier assassination, that of prime minister Olof Palme who was murdered on his way home from a movie in 1986.
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