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Kumla Prison
Kumla Prison ( sv, Anstalten Kumla) is a prison facility in Kumla Municipality, Sweden. It was opened in 1965 and is Sweden's biggest prison. Kumla is one of three high security prisons in Sweden holding risk inmates (security class 1). On March 18, 2009, a new supermax facility was opened inside the Kumla Prison. The prison is no longer in use by the swedish law., Kriminalvården press release, March 18, 2009.(Swedish) Notable inmates * Jackie Arklov * * |
Kumla
Kumla is a locality and the seat of Kumla Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with a population of 21,640 as of 2018. Geography Kumla is situated roughly 15 kilometres south of neighbouring city Örebro, and is connected to its much larger neighbour with train and bus commuting. Kumla is unusual in terms of municipality seats in Svealand in that there is no connection to any kind of waterway in the centre of the town. However, three of the four biggest lakes in the country are within an hour's drive from the town. It is also an unusually flat town, since it is situated in the middle of the so-called Närke Plain. There is also a very agrarian landscape surrounding Kumla. Transport Kumla is linked with several roads, including the highway E20 that is passing just west of the locality. The E20 is the fastest route to both Gothenburg and Stockholm, which Kumla is situated relatively close to the middle between the two largest Swedish cities. E20 passes Örebro as well, but there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ausonius
John Wolfgang Alexander Ausonius (born Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg, 12 July 1953), known in the media as Lasermannen ("the Laser Man"), is a Swedish far-right extremist convicted of murder and bank robberies. Between August 1991 to January 1992 he shot eleven people in the Stockholm and Uppsala area, most of whom were immigrants, killing one and seriously injuring the others. He first used a rifle equipped with a laser sight (hence his nickname), and later switched to a revolver. He was arrested in June 1992 and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 1994. Additionally, in February 2018 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for the 1992 murder of Holocaust survivor Blanka Zmigrod. Early life Ausonius was born Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg in Lidingö, northeast of Stockholm, Sweden. He is the son of a Swiss father and a German mother, both of whom had emigrated to Sweden. He grew up in Vällingby, a working class suburb of Stockholm. According to newspaper reports, he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miro Barešić
Miro Barešić (10 September 1950 – 31 July 1991) was a Yugoslav-Croatian émigré and neo-fascist paramilitary who in 1971 murdered a Yugoslav diplomat, Vladimir Rolović, in Sweden. He later served as a soldier in Paraguay and in the Croatian National Guard in 1991. In 1969, Barešić was sentenced to six months in prison in Yugoslavia for avoiding military service, after which he left the country and joined the Croatian National Resistance movement. In 1971, he was convicted of the murder of Vladimir Rolović, Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden and former commander of the Goli Otok prison. He was released in 1972 as part of the conditions and demands by Croatian hijackers of a Swedish domestic flight. For several years, he lived in the United States and then Paraguay under a false identity. In 1980, he was extradited to Sweden and served the remaining seven years of his original sentence for the Rolović murder. He was released in 1987 and four years later, when the Croatian War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Zethraeus
Tommy Zethraeus (born 28 May 1969) is a Swedish mass murderer responsible for the murder of four people outside the restaurant Sturecompagniet at Stureplan, Stockholm on 4 December 1994. After Zethraeus and two of his friends were denied entry at the door to the restaurant, they went home by taxi and returned at about five in the morning. Zethraeus had brought with him a fully automatic Norwegian AG-3 battle rifle and gunned down three women, Katinka Genberg (21), Daniella Josberg (22) and Kristina Oséen (21), and doorman Joakim Jonsson (22). Over twenty other people were injured. He was tried and later sentenced to life imprisonment. Zethraeus applied in 2009 to seek a time frame set for his life sentence, but his application was denied by the court. However, on 11 February 2014, an Örebro court decided to grant Zethraeus his application setting a conditional parole in 2016. The Örebro District Court's decision was appealed to the Court of Appeal, where it was repealed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Fadime Şahindal
Fadime Şahindal (2 April 1975, in Elbistan – 21 January 2002, in Uppsala) was a Kurdish immigrant who moved to Sweden from Turkey at the age of seven. She was murdered by her father, Rahmi, in January 2002 in an honour killing. Life Fadime Şahindal was a talented pupil but her parents hid her acceptance letter from the university. By chance she found out anyway she had been accepted for a course in social studies. She was opposed to her family's insistence on arranging her marriage to a male cousin who lived in their Kurdish home village in Turkey. Instead she opted to pursue a relationship with a Swedish man. At first she kept the relationship secret, but her father found out about it. Şahindal then left her family and moved to Sundsvall, where her brother found her and threatened her. She went to the police, who advised her at first to talk to her family. She then turned to the media with her story, after which she turned again to the police and was offered a secret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Olsson (criminal)
The Malexander murders ( sv, Malexandermorden) were the murders of two police officers, Robert Karlström and Olle Borén, at Malexander, Sweden, on 28 May 1999. The murders were committed after a bank robbery in Kisa earlier that day. Three men were convicted of the crimes, Tony Olsson, Andreas Axelsson and former mercenary Jackie Arklöv. The murders in Malexander were among the most high-profile cases in Sweden. The three perpetrators were active neo-Nazis and the robbery spree before the murders was committed as part of their plan to collect money to fund and create a "revolutionary" Nazi organization. Commission of the crime Of the three criminals, Andreas Axelsson was a computer instructor with only fines and social service on his record, whereas Tony Olsson was already serving a prison sentence at the time of the crime, but had received furlough from incarceration at Österåker Prison to participate in Lars Norén's play ''7:3''. Using this opportunity, at 14:50 Arklö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Nödtveidt
Jon Andreas Nödtveidt (28 June 1975 – 13 August 2006) was a Swedish musician best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the Swedish black metal band Dissection. He co-founded the band in 1989 with bassist Peter Palmdahl. Career As the main songwriter and vocalist for Dissection he released the seminal black metal albums ''The Somberlain'' and '' Storm of the Light's Bane''. These albums would prove to be highly influential releases for both black metal and melodic death metal. In the beginning of his musical career, Nödtveidt formed a heavy metal band called Thunder with his brother Emil in 1988. Their songs were presented in a compilation album of Nödtveidt's music school in Strömstad. Nödtveidt also performed in several other projects, including The Black (as Rietas), De Infernali, Nifelheim, Ophthalamia (as "Shadow"), Satanized, Siren's Yell, and Terror, a grindcore band which featured members of At the Gates. He also worked as a journalist in ''Metal Zone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mijailo Mijailović
Mijailo Mijailović ( sr, Мијаило Мијаиловић; born 6 December 1978) is the self-confessed and convicted assassin of the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, whom he stabbed on 10 September 2003 at the NK department store in Stockholm. Lindh died early the following day after unsuccessful surgical treatment to try to save her life. Early life Mijailo was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 6 December 1978 to Serbian parents from the town of Mladenovac. His parents immigrated to Sweden in the late 1960s as foreign workers. When he was 6 years old, he was sent to live with his paternal grandparents in Serbia, where he went to school. He returned to Sweden when the Yugoslav Wars began. He finished school in 1995, with a grade point average of 3.4 (out of a possible 5.0). He enrolled in Swedish high school but dropped out in the second grade, his school mates remember him as a lone wolf. In 1997, at 18 years old, he stabbed his father and was convicted of aggra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Maiorana
Fucked For Life (FFL) is a criminal network in Sweden, probably founded by Daniel Maiorana (born ). At the core of the network are 12 men, some of whom have "FFL" tattooed on their arms or neck. History The gang was initially named "Tumba Lords" after Tumba, a southern suburb of Stockholm, but later changed its name "Fucked For Life" at the end of the 1990s. The gang originally consisted of 5 members, but police estimates said the number had increased to approximately 40 members in 2004. FFL had begun with the theft of mopeds and motocross-cycles, but in recent years they have been occupied with robbing ATMs and armoured transports. Maiorana was released from Hall Prison on 14 February 2002, where he had served a -year sentence for robbery and assault. After his release, a crime wave associated with FFL began in Stockholm, until he was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison. He escaped from custody on 18 January 2004 but was arrested again. He escaped yet again on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helge Fossmo
Helge Arnold Fossmo (born 27 July 1971) is a Pentecostal pastor sentenced to life imprisonment for solicitation of the Knutby murder in Sweden in 2004. Life before Knutby Helge Fossmo was born to Norwegian parents in the village of Björneborg, close to Kristinehamn in Värmland County. The family was not particularly religious, but when he was about ten years old Fossmo joined the scouting organization of the Mission Covenant Church in Björneborg. Not long before he turned twelve he became a " born again" Christian. He went to high school in Kristinehamn, where he volunteered at a Christian youth café. At age 17 he met Heléne Johansson, his future wife. In 1989 he joined the Pentecostal church of Kristinehamn, where Johansson also was a member. After graduation, he studied in Karlstad to become a science teacher, eventually dropping out. For a while he worked as a teacher in his old school in Björneborg. In the spring of 1993, Fossmo was involved with Jaspis. In Kri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stig Bergling
Stig Svante Eugén Bergling, later Stig Svante ''Eugén'' Sandberg and ''Stig'' Svante Eugén Sydholt, (1 March 1937 – 24 January 2015) was a Swedish Security Service officer who spied for the Soviet Union. The Stig Bergling-affair, one of Sweden's greatest spy scandals, began when he was arrested in Israel in 1979 by Israeli counterintelligence and in the same year in Sweden was sentenced to life imprisonment for aggravated espionage. He fled to Moscow, however, during a conjugal visit in 1987 he managed to escape with the assistance of his then wife Elisabeth Sjögren. Bergling's escape was a major embarrassment for Sweden's liberal prison system and prompted the resignation of the justice minister. Bergling lived for several years in the Soviet Union, Hungary and Lebanon until, for health reasons, he voluntarily returned to Sweden in 1994. He continued to serve his sentence until 1997, when he was paroled. During the last years of his life, Bergling lived in a Stockholm nur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Stockholm Truck Attack
On 7 April 2017, a vehicle-ramming Islamist terrorist attack took place in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. A hijacked truck was deliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan (Queen Street) before being crashed into an Åhléns department store. Five people, the youngest an 11 year old girl, were killed. 14 others were seriously injured. The perpetrator was Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old rejected asylum seeker and a citizen of Uzbekistan, who was apprehended several hours later. He had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State in a self-recorded video the day before the attack, and Uzbek authorities said he had allegedly joined the group. Akilov was convicted of murder and terrorist crimes, and sentenced to life in prison and, if released, deportation to Uzbekistan and lifetime expulsion from Sweden. Attack Akilov chose to attack during an afternoon as there were many tourists in the area. Akilov recorded a number of films in the Odenplan area where he is heard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
