Mannen som föll från himlen
On December 21, 1988, a bomb exploded on a Boeing 747 over the Scottish village of Lockerbie. One of the victims was the Swedish UN-diplomat Bernt Carlsson on his way to New York for the signing of the treaty giving Namibia independence. Suspicion initially falls on Palestinian terrorists but eventually a Libyan is convicted of the crime, a conviction that has become increasingly questioned over the years. But if Libya was not behind the terrorist attack, who was? Was it just a coincidence that Bernt Carlsson was on board? And who stands to gain from the truth not coming out? Jan Stocklassa’s book The Man Who Fell from the Sky depicts the quest for the solution to the riddle, but also becomes a story about conspiracy theories and great power conflicts, about Sweden’s place in the world and the efforts of murdered Swedish diplomats for peace and independence.