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Sweden's anti-immigrant sniper guilty of two murders
Source: Reuters
Sweden's anti-immigrant sniper guilty of two murders
STOCKHOLM | Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:15am EDT
(Reuters) - A Swedish man who fired sniper shots at foreign-looking people was found guilty of two counts of murder on Tuesday, highlighting racial tensions in the Nordic region traumatized by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
Peter Mangs was arrested in 2010 after a 12-month shooting spree in the southern Swedish city of Malmo.
The court found the 40-year-old Mangs guilty of the 2009 murder of a Swedish-born woman who was sitting next to an immigrant friend in a car when Mangs fired multiple shots. He was also convicted of murdering an Iranian-born man by shooting him in the chest in his apartment in 2003.
Mangs was also found guilty of four attempted murders during 2009 and 2010. The court heard how one victim was shot though a window while working out in a gym and another while waiting for a bus. Some of the shootings were in broad daylight.
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STOCKHOLM | Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:15am EDT
(Reuters) - A Swedish man who fired sniper shots at foreign-looking people was found guilty of two counts of murder on Tuesday, highlighting racial tensions in the Nordic region traumatized by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
Peter Mangs was arrested in 2010 after a 12-month shooting spree in the southern Swedish city of Malmo.
The court found the 40-year-old Mangs guilty of the 2009 murder of a Swedish-born woman who was sitting next to an immigrant friend in a car when Mangs fired multiple shots. He was also convicted of murdering an Iranian-born man by shooting him in the chest in his apartment in 2003.
Mangs was also found guilty of four attempted murders during 2009 and 2010. The court heard how one victim was shot though a window while working out in a gym and another while waiting for a bus. Some of the shootings were in broad daylight.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/24/us-sweden-trial-idUSBRE86N0O120120724
