The explosion on Gyllenstiernsgatan on Östermalm is described by the police as the "most powerful" in Stockholm. A week later, new explosions take place in Husby and Kista. But that Stockholmers are met by black headlines that an explosion has happened, has happened before.

During the years 1982 to 1983, several explosions occurred in the Stockholm area and two people lost their lives.

In the summer of July 16, 1982, prosecutor Sigurd Dencker's villa in Nacka was blown up. The villa was completely destroyed and a young man lost his life.

Half a year later on New Year's Eve on December 31, Restaurant Fontainebleau was blown up on Norrlandsgatan in central Stockholm. The explosion was so powerful that the house facade was torn away and several floors were destroyed. Police suspected and arrested the two owners, but they were later released.

The same winter two months later, on February 22, 1983, the tax scraper on Södermalm is hit by an explosive attack, even here one person dies.

Later that summer on August 8, the Office of the Crown Prosecutor's Office in Nacka will be opened. The damage to the building was extensive.

A man, the so-called Bomber Lars Tingström, is sentenced to life imprisonment for blowing up the Tax Crisis, the Prosecutor's Villa and the Crown Prosecutor's Office in Nacka. He refuses a crime and is later released by the High Court for the bombing of the Tax Scratch but is sentenced for the other two.

But who or who dropped the bomb and caused the blast of Fontainebleau is still unsolved.

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