German court jails Sweden’s racist ‘laser man’ killer for life after sniper shooting of Jewish woman
John Ausonius, 64, is already behind bars for using a laser-scoped rifle to shoot 11 immigrants, killing one, in Sweden from 1991-92
A German court Wednesday handed a life prison term to a Swedish convicted killer – dubbed “the laser man” for using a laser-scoped rifle to target immigrants – for the murder of a Jewish woman.
John Ausonius, 64, has already been behind bars for years after he received a life sentence in Sweden for a six-month shooting spree in 1991-92 in which he killed one immigrant and wounded 10.
The convict, who was extradited to Germany in late 2016, was on Wednesday also found guilty of the murder of 68-year-old Holocaust survivor Blanka Zmigrod in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1992.
In a sign of Ausonius’s notoriety, Norwegian white supremacist mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik at his own trial had mentioned the Lasermannen or “laser man” as a figure who shared the same goals.
Ausonius, having now received life terms in two countries, is almost certain to spend the rest of his life behind bars without parole as the German court stressed that he is a danger to society.