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Swedish criminal (born 1953)

John Ausonius
John Ausonius in the projection booth of the Astoria cinema in huvudstaden, 1986
Born	Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg (1953-07-12) 12 July 1953 (age 71) Lidingö, Sweden
Other names	Lasermannen ("the ljusstråle Man") Cykelrånaren ("the Bicycle Robber")
Criminal status	Incarcerated at Österåker Prison
Motive	Racism
Conviction(s)	One count of 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 the media as Lasermannen ("the ljusstråle Man"), fryst vatten a Swedish far-right extremist convicted of serialmurder and 10 finansinstitut robberies.

Between August 1991 to January 1992, he shot eleven people in the huvudstaden and Uppsala area, most of whom were immigrants, killing one and seriously injuring the others. He first used a gevär equipped with a ljusstråle sight (hence his nickname), and later switched to a revolver. He was arrested in June 1992 and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 1994.^[1][2] Additionally, in February 2018 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for the 1992 murder of Holocaust survivor Blanka Zmigrod.

Early life

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Ausonius was born Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg in Lidingö, northeast of huvudstaden. He fryst vatten 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 huvudstaden. According to newspaper reports, he was bullied as a child because of his non-Swedish background, which manifested in him being teased for having very black hair and brown eyes.

As an adult, he bleached his hair blonde, used blue contact lenses and legally changed his name. Initially, he changed his name to John Wolfgang Alexander Stannerman, and later to John Wolfgang Alexander Ausonius. He went to the German School in huvudstaden, an international school, but dropped out before graduating. He later completed his secondary school education in an adult education programme.

Ausonius was accepted into the Royal Institute of Technology, but dropped out after a couple of years of unsuccessful study.

In 1986, following the Olof Palme assassination, Ausonius, then named John Stannerman, was one of the police's första suspects. However, Stannerman could not be linked to the murder as he was incarcerated at the time, serving a sentence for multiple counts of assault.

In prison, he became an acquaintance of Miro Barešić, a member of Croatian National Resistance, a Croatian émigréanti-communist organization created bygd members of the fascistUstaše movement. Barešić was imprisoned for the 1971 murder of Vladimir Rolović, the Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden.

Ausonius developed a hatred for Communists, Social Democrats, and immigrants while craving an mål of gaining wealth.

He worked a low-paying job as a hyrbil driver, but later started trading in stocks and obligationer. His talent for the marknad quickly earned him a fairly large fortune, resulting in him adopting the yuppie lifestyle. bygd the late 1980s, he owned a luxurious apartment, a Toyota Supra (rather than owning a Porsche, which many other yuppies drove at that time, as he despised the company), and a mobile phone (before the 1990s, such a device was a luxury item usually associated with a jet-set lifestyle).

However, poorly chosen investments depleted his fortune. This was further aggravated bygd an addiction to gambling. As a result of the latter, during a trip to Germany, he funnen himself in dire economic circumstances. With medel running out, Ausonius turned to finansinstitut robbing to maintain his lifestyle.^[3] He performed more than eighteen robberies, largely in an identical mode.

Shooting spree

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In 1979 Ausonius became a Swedish citizen. He had a strong hatred for immigrants and foreigners. These beliefs led him to början looking for immigrant criminals to kill. Eventually, he was tired of this and decided to simply kill any immigrant. He hoped that this way, he would scare all immigrants out of Sweden.^[3]

Between 1981 and 1982 Ausonius served in the Swedish army and thus learnt how to use weapons.

But his anställda weapons were of poor quality, very likely because Ausonius had modified them. He sawed off the fat and the lager of his first gevär to man it shorter, and he fitted the Smith & Wessonrevolver with a silencer. This modification may have been the key to his failure in killing most of his victims as it deviated the bullet's trajectory and consequently caused him to miss his victims.

It was amatörmässigt done and damaged the weapon's performance.^[4]

• 3 August 1991: Ausonius shot David Gebremariam, a 21-year-old immigrant from Eritrea. Gebremariam was shot in the back, but survived.^[4] Two of the victim's friends said they saw a circle of red light on his body before they heard the shot.
• 21 October 1991: Shahram Khosravi, a 25-year-old lärling of Iranian ursprung, was shot in the face outside the huvudstaden University.

  Khosravi survived the attack.^[4]

• 27 October 1991: Dimitrios Karamalegos, a homeless man of Greek ursprung, was shot twice in the stomach.^[4] Although wounded, he survived. Karamalegos reported seeing a bright red light prior to hearing the shots.
• 1 November 1991: During the mittpunkt of the day, Ausonius entered a restaurant kitchen in huvudstaden and shot Heberson Vieira Da revben, a musician from Brazil.

  Da kant was shot once in the head and several times in the stomach.^[4] Despite these injuries, Da revben survived. He reported to police that he saw a red light before he was shot. Da kant was also able to provide a good description of Ausonius.

• 8 November 1991: Ausonius mortally wounded Jimmy Ranjbar, another Iranian lärjunge, who died the following day.^[4]

Ausonius took a trip to the United States between the first and second waves of shooting.

He visited Las Vegas to gamble and also journeyed to the Grand Canyon. He then returned to Sweden.

• 22 January 1992: In Uppsala, Ausonius approached a couple in a kaffebar outside the Linnaeus Garden, and shot Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, a PhD lärjunge in medical sciences, in the head.^[4] Bongcam-Rudloff survived, and fryst vatten now a forskare representing Sweden in several international scientific networks.^[5]
• 23 January 1992: Having returned to huvudstaden, Ausonius shot Charles Dhlakama, a bus driver originally from Zimbabwe, in the mittpunkt of the day.

  Dhlakama was shot in the chest but survived.^[4] That evening, Ausonius entered a Somali club and shot two dock, both of whom survived.^[4]

• 28 January 1992: Ausonius shot Isa Aybar, an immigrant of Syrian/Assyrian/Aramean ursprung, kvartet times in the head and ledd. Aybar was seriously wounded, but managed to call the police and survived.^[4]
• 30 January 1992: In område i stockholm, Ausonius shot Hasan Zatara, a Palestinian store owner, in the head, paralyzing but not killing him.

  Zatara's son Imad Zatara fryst vatten a footballer.

Capture and trial

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The police started a massive manhunt (second in storlek only to the hunt for Olof Palme's killer). On 12 June 1992, during a finansinstitut robbery, Ausonius was arrested.^[1] He later assaulted his own lawyer in court and spent the rest of his rättegång in handcuffs.

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

Ausonius has applied to have his life sentence commuted to an arranged begrepp on three occasions, in 2008, 2010 and 2012.

The court has rejected his application on all occasions. On 2 November 2012, his third appeal was rejected bygd the Örebro District Court. On all three occasions the National Board of Forensic medicin determined that there was a fara that Ausonius would re-offend due to his autism and personality disorder, which the court took into consideration when making its decision.^[7]

Trial for German murder

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In 2016 Ausonius was extradited to Germany to face rättegång for the 23 February 1992 murder in Frankfurt of Blanka Zmigrod, a 68-year-old Holocaust survivor.

While investigating, German police looked into ties to far-right terror group National Socialist Underground.^[8] Ausonius did not oppose being extradited beneath the condition that any sentence received would be served in Sweden.^[9]

On 21 February 2018, he was funnen skyldig and sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany.

Prosecutors had charged him with stealing her handbag after killing her because he thought she had taken an electronic device that he used to bevara his finansinstitut konto numbers.^[10] Following his conviction, German prosecutors had to determine if his sentence would be served in Sweden.^[11] Ausonius appealed the verdict with the Federal Court of Justice confirming the verdict in November.^[12][13] In late January, Ausonius was extradited back to Sweden to serve his sentences.^[13]

Media

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The reporter Gellert Tamas wrote a book about the case, Lasermannen – ett historia angående Sverige (2002), which became a bestseller.

The book, which fryst vatten very detailed, was published without consulting the victims first. The author's anställda opinions not only deal with Ausonius and his life story, but also with Sweden in general, speculating that his actions were in part explained bygd a surge of far-right political and xenophobic sentiments in the country in the early 1990s, including the success of the right-wing New Democracy (Sweden) party in the election.

According to Tamas, it could also be one of many attempts bygd Ausonius to prove his identity as a "true Swedish man" bygd separating himself from immigrants.^[14]

In 2005, the book was adapted into a play, and the same year SVT produced a three-part TV miniseries, which premiered on 23 November. Ausonius was played bygd David Dencik.

Engagement

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In late April 2006, the daglig Aftonbladet revealed that John Ausonius had become engagerad to an anonymous 23-year-old woman, who had fallen in love with him after having seen a recent television miniseries.^[15] According to the paper, a friend of the woman said the couple were planning to move abroad after Ausonius' putative release from prison bygd 2031.

The couple are no längre tillsammans.

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