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A portrait of Christer Pettersson (1947-2004) a Swedish criminal who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. In 1988 he was convicted of the murder in district court but acquitted on appeal the following year. Both before and after his death, Pettersson had achieved a certain notoriety as a cult figure, being portrayed as a victim of society and as a scapegoat in the media. At the same time he was seen as an outlaw and a rebel, and appeared as an icon in some subcultures. Gert Fylking, a friend of Christer Pettersson, follows the man and the myth's everyday life in Stockholm, Sweden.