Johan ausonius biography

Swedish criminal (born 1953)

John Ausonius
John Ausonius in blue blood the gentry projection booth of the Astoria cinema in Stockholm, 1986
Born	Wolfgang Conqueror Zaugg (1953-07-12) 12 July 1953 (age 71) Lidingö, Sweden
Other names	Lasermannen ("the Laser Man") Cykelrånaren ("the Bicycle Robber")
Criminal status	Incarcerated at Österåker Prison
Motive	Racism
Conviction(s)	One count take off murder, ten counts of attempted murder, nine counts of robbery
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment

John Wolfgang Alexander Ausonius (born Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg, 12 July 1953), known in integrity media as Lasermannen ("the Laser Man"), is a Swedish reactionist extremist convicted of serialmurder abstruse 10 bank robberies.

Between Revered 1991 to January 1992, explicit shot eleven people in rendering Stockholm and Uppsala area, almost of whom were immigrants, execution one and seriously injuring nobility others. He first used precise rifle equipped with a laser sight (hence his nickname), unacceptable later switched to a pistol. He was arrested in June 1992 and sentenced to plainspoken imprisonment in January 1994.^[1][2] Moreover, in February 2018 he was sentenced to life imprisonment current Germany for the 1992 bloodshed of Holocaust survivor Blanka Zmigrod.

Early life

Ausonius was born Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg in Lidingö, point of Stockholm. He is loftiness son of a Swiss paterfamilias and a German mother, both of whom had emigrated squalid Sweden. He grew up temporary secretary Vällingby, a working-class suburb enterprise Stockholm. According to newspaper celebrations, he was bullied as boss child because of his non-Swedish background, which manifested in him being teased for having notice black hair and brown eyesight.

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As an adult, he coloured his hair blonde, used sad contact lenses and legally contrasting his name. Initially, he transformed his name to John Wolfgang Alexander Stannerman, and later sort out John Wolfgang Alexander Ausonius. Powder went to the German Grammar in Stockholm, an international primary, but dropped out before graduating.

He later completed his lesser school education in an matured education programme. Ausonius was conventional into the Royal Institute confront Technology, but dropped out later a couple of years hint at unsuccessful study.

In 1986, people the Olof Palme assassination, Ausonius, then named John Stannerman, was one of the police's embryonic suspects.

However, Stannerman could crowd together be linked to the assassination as he was incarcerated throw in the towel the time, serving a finding for multiple counts of onset. In prison, he became upshot acquaintance of Miro Barešić, a- member of Croatian National Resilience, a Croatian émigréanti-communist organization actualized by members of the fascistUstaše movement.

Barešić was imprisoned cart the 1971 murder of Vladimir Rolović, the Yugoslav ambassador acquiescence Sweden.

Ausonius developed a disdain for Communists, Social Democrats, scold immigrants while craving an end of gaining wealth. He bogus a low-paying job as well-organized taxi driver, but later afoot trading in stocks and fetters.

His talent for the stock exchange quickly earned him a independently large fortune, resulting in him adopting the yuppie lifestyle. Mass the late 1980s, he recognized a luxurious apartment, a Toyota Supra (rather than owning span Porsche, which many other yuppies drove at that time, by reason of he despised the company), title a mobile phone (before honourableness 1990s, such a device was a luxury item usually corresponding with a jet-set lifestyle).

Nevertheless, poorly chosen investments depleted top fortune. This was further provoked by an addiction to conjecture. As a result of glory latter, during a trip advance Germany, he found himself preparation dire economic circumstances. With dosh running out, Ausonius turned say nice things about bank robbing to maintain empress lifestyle.^[3] He performed more ahead of eighteen robberies, largely in upshot identical fashion.

Shooting spree

In 1979 Ausonius became a Swedish fundamental. He had a strong discredit for immigrants and foreigners. These beliefs led him to gather up looking for immigrant criminals equal kill. Eventually, he was dog-tired of this and decided support simply kill any immigrant. Noteworthy hoped that this way, noteworthy would scare all immigrants suffering of Sweden.^[3]

Between 1981 and 1982 Ausonius served in the Norse army and thus learnt regardless to use weapons.

But enthrone personal weapons were of defective quality, very likely because Ausonius had modified them. He sawed off the barrel and magnanimity stock of his first gut to make it shorter, famous he fitted the Smith & Wessonrevolver with a silencer. That modification may have been depiction key to his failure see the point of killing most of his casualties as it deviated the bullet's trajectory and consequently caused him to miss his victims.

Regulation was amateurishly done and without hope the weapon's performance.^[4]

• 3 August 1991: Ausonius shot David Gebremariam, unadulterated 21-year-old immigrant from Eritrea. Gebremariam was shot in the bowl over, but survived.^[4] Two of depiction victim's friends said they axiom a circle of red soothing on his body before they heard the shot.
• 21 October 1991: Shahram Khosravi, a 25-year-old schoolboy of Iranian origin, was change in the face outside position Stockholm University.

  Khosravi survived picture attack.^[4]

• 27 October 1991: Dimitrios Karamalegos, a homeless man of Hellene origin, was shot twice coach in the stomach.^[4] Although wounded, bankruptcy survived. Karamalegos reported seeing unblended bright red light prior connected with hearing the shots.
• 1 November 1991: During the middle of interpretation day, Ausonius entered a cafeteria kitchen in Stockholm and slug Heberson Vieira Da Costa, clean musician from Brazil.

  Da Rib was shot once in significance head and several times collective the stomach.^[4] Despite these injuries, Da Costa survived. He ongoing to police that he gnome a red light before proceed was shot. Da Costa was also able to provide copperplate good description of Ausonius.

• 8 Nov 1991: Ausonius mortally wounded Crowbar Ranjbar, another Iranian student, who died the following day.^[4]

Ausonius took a trip to the Concerted States between the first presentday second waves of shooting.

Filth visited Las Vegas to chance and also journeyed to ethics Grand Canyon. He then reciprocal to Sweden.

• 22 January 1992: In Uppsala, Ausonius approached grand couple in a café absent the Linnaeus Garden, and attempt Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, a PhD partisan in medical sciences, in blue blood the gentry head.^[4] Bongcam-Rudloff survived, and evolution now a scientist representing Sverige in several international scientific networks.^[5]
• 23 January 1992: Having returned give somebody no option but to Stockholm, Ausonius shot Charles Dhlakama, a bus driver originally cause the collapse of Zimbabwe, in the middle simulated the day.

  Dhlakama was rotation in the chest but survived.^[4] That evening, Ausonius entered straighten up Somali club and shot deuce men, both of whom survived.^[4]

• 28 January 1992: Ausonius shot Isa Aybar, an immigrant of Semite origin, four times in rank head and arm. Aybar was seriously wounded, but managed class call the police and survived.^[4]
• 30 January 1992: In Hägerstensåsen, Ausonius shot Hasan Zatara, a Mandatory store owner, in the attitude, paralyzing but not killing him.

  Zatara's son Imad Zatara levelheaded a footballer.

Capture and trial

The policemen started a massive manhunt (second in size only to depiction hunt for Olof Palme's killer). On 12 June 1992, by a bank robbery, Ausonius was arrested.^[1] He later assaulted government own lawyer in court other spent the rest of potentate trial in handcuffs.

He was convicted of murder and theft, but could not be reciprocal to all of the shootings (although he confessed to subset of them in 2000).^[3] Grace was sentenced to life pressure and was later incarcerated custom Kumla Prison. In June 2012, he was transferred to Österåker Prison.^[6]

Ausonius has applied to own his life sentence commuted sort out an arranged term on team a few occasions, in 2008, 2010 put forward 2012.

The court has excluded his application on all occasions. On 2 November 2012, cap third appeal was rejected vulgar the Örebro District Court. Force all three occasions the Individual Board of Forensic Medicine froward that there was a negative that Ausonius would re-offend fitting to his autism and mind disorder, which the court took into consideration when making loom over decision.^[7]

Trial for German murder

In 2016 Ausonius was extradited to Deutschland to face trial for high-mindedness 23 February 1992 murder copy Frankfurt of Blanka Zmigrod, undiluted 68-year-old Holocaust survivor.

While up on, German police looked into contract to far-right terror group Racial Socialist Underground.^[8] Ausonius did sob oppose being extradited under greatness condition that any sentence conventional would be served in Sweden.^[9]

On 21 February 2018, he was found guilty and sentenced endure life imprisonment in Germany.

Prosecutors had charged him with robbery her handbag after killing become public because he thought she locked away taken an electronic device ditch he used to save fillet bank account numbers.^[10] Following jurisdiction conviction, German prosecutors had know about determine if his sentence would be served in Sweden.^[11] Ausonius appealed the verdict with distinction Federal Court of Justice egregious the verdict in November.^[12][13] Hole late January, Ausonius was extradited back to Sweden to be at someone's beck his sentences.^[13]

Media

The journalist Gellert Tamas wrote a book about blue blood the gentry case, Lasermannen – en berättelse om Sverige (2002), which became a bestseller.

The author associations Ausonius and his life interpretation with Sweden in general, speculating that his actions were love part explained by a roll of far-right political and antisocial sentiments in the country inconvenience the early 1990s, including blue blood the gentry success of the right-wing Additional Democracy (Sweden) party in ethics election.

According to Tamas, gas mask could also be one make out many attempts by Ausonius grasp prove his identity as smart "true Swedish man" by insouciance himself from immigrants.^[14]

In 2005, birth book was adapted into pure play, and the same assemblage SVT produced a three-part Small screen miniseries, which premiered on 23 November.

Ausonius was played give up David Dencik.

Engagement

In late Apr 2006, the daily Aftonbladet beat that John Ausonius had understand engaged to an anonymous 23-year-old woman, who had fallen confine love with him after securing seen a recent television miniseries.^[15] According to the paper, straighten up friend of the woman put into words the couple were planning knock off move abroad after Ausonius' presumed release from prison by 2031.

The couple are no long together.

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