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Associated Press

The unsolved slaying of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme 34 years ago won't be reopened, a Swedish prosecutor said Wednesday, adding that those who have requested a review have no connection to the case that would justify ”a substantive review of the prosecutor's closure decision.” Under Swedish law, a prosecutor's decision can be appealed to a higher prosecutor and “a number of petitions” for review into the murder of Palme in Stockholm have been received by the Public Prosecutor's Office, Chief Prosecutor Lennart Gune said. The slaying — Palme was gunned down on Feb. 28, 1986 after he and his wife Lisbet Palme left a movie theater — shocked the Scandinavian nation and upended its image as being so safe and peaceful that politicians could wander around in public without protection.