Swedish Racist 'laser Man' Shooter Faces Germany Murder Verdict
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published February 21, 2018 | 05:03 PM
A German court was due on Wednesday to sentence a Swedish convicted killer - dubbed "the laser man" for using a laser-scoped rifle to target immigrants - for the murder of a Jewish woman in 1992
Frankfurt am Main, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Feb, 2018 ) :A German court was due on Wednesday to sentence a Swedish convicted killer - dubbed "the laser man" for using a laser-scoped rifle to target immigrants - for the murder of a Jewish woman in 1992.
John Ausonius, 64, has already received a life prison term in Sweden for a six-month shooting spree in 1991-92 in which he killed an Iranian student and wounded 10 other immigrants. The convict was extradited to Germany in late 2016 to face trial for one additional murder -- of 68-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor Blanka Zmigrod in Frankfurt in 1992.
The verdict for Ausonius, who denies the woman's murder, was to be announced around 1330 GMT by justice Baerbel Stock in the Frankfurt court.
German prosecutors are seeking a life sentence. Born as Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg in Sweden to a German mother and a Swiss father, Ausonius was reportedly bullied at school, rejected his foreign origins and later developed a strong hatred for immigrants.
He would dye his dark hair a lighter shade and wear blue contact lenses to appear like a "real Swede", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has reported. He obtained Swedish citizenship as a young adult and changed his name twice, finally to Ausonius after a Roman poet.
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, speaking at his Oslo trial for the 2011 killings of 77 people, mentioned the "Lasermannen" or "laser man" as a figure who shared the same goals.
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