Jackie Arklöv

Jackie Arklöf, 2009

Jackie Banny Arklöv (born June 6, 1973 in Liberia ) is a Swedish convicted robbery and war criminal . He was involved as a mercenary in war crimes during the Yugoslav Wars.

In 1999 he and two accomplices murdered a police officer after a bank robbery .

childhood

Arklöv was born in Liberia in 1973 , his mother was black and his father was a German citizen . He was adopted by a Swedish couple at the age of three and grew up in the Lapland village of Ankarsund .

Arklöv was reportedly the only adopted child in town, he said he found it difficult to fit in as an adult as he was bullied. Arklöv testified to the police that his adoptive parents regularly punished him physically .

In his youth he developed a keen interest in National Socialism and World War II .

Yugoslav war

From the age of 19, Arklöv took part in the war in Yugoslavia as a mercenary on the Croatian side . Arklöv was a staunch neo-Nazi at the time. He studied the fascist Ustasha and was fascinated by its extremely violent reputation.

He emigrated from Sweden to join the French Foreign Legion, but when he heard that they were not participating in any wars, he went to Yugoslavia, where he joined a Croatian neo-Ustasha unit called Ludvig Pavlović .

He kept a war diary that was not published. He took part in heavy and violent fighting and committed crimes against civilians in villages.

The Swedish journalist Magnus Sandelin wrote a book about Arklöv called The Black Nazi (Den Svarte Nazisten) , in which he described his childhood and time in the war. Sandelin, one of the few reporters with access to material from the war diary, wrote that Arklöv participated in the ethnic cleansing of cities, scrawled swastikas on the pages of his diary and composed a short dictionary of insults to his victims. One Christmas he sent his family home a package that contained the headgear of a killed soldier.

Arklöv was arrested shortly after the fighting ended when he was crossing the Bosniak border. He was charged with war crimes, including torturing pregnant Bosniak women captured in the Gabela , Dretelj and Grabovina internment camps . Among other things, he had forced a woman to say Allahu akbar before putting his rifle in her mouth. He whipped prisoners with a Waffen SS belt and abused pregnant girls. He broke the prisoners' arms and legs through torture.

The prisoners in the camps called Arklöv "the black devil" because of his black uniform and skin color. When civilians were tortured and forced to humble themselves in front of Arklöv but disobeyed him, other guards would come in and tell the victims to "do what he says or he will kill you, he's totally insane" and laughed.

After the war

After the war, Arklöv was sentenced to three years in prison by a Bosnian court. He spent a year in a Bosnian prison, but returned to Sweden after a prisoner exchange organized by the Swedish Red Cross . He was taken into custody in Sweden, but after a while acquitted for lack of evidence.

While in prison in Sweden, Arklöv received several letters from neo-Nazi Tony Olsson , who was starting a new militant neo-Nazi organization and, impressed by Arklöv's war experience, wanted him to join. After their release, Arklöv and Olsson met with the other members of the newly formed NRA (Nationalistiska Republikanska Armén, "the nationalist republican army"), including Andreas Axelsson and Mats Nilsson.

On May 28, 1999, Arklöv, Axelsson and Olsson robbed Östgöta Enskilda Bank in Kisa . Olsson waited outside the bank, armed with an Uzi submachine gun, while Arklöv and Axelsson entered the bank and ordered the staff to open the vaults. Since the safe was locked, the robbers had to wait 12 minutes before leaving the bank with over two million kroner . During their escape, police officer Kennet Eklund followed them in his car. The robbers spotted him and opened fire, two hand grenades were thrown at his car. Both hand grenades exploded, but Eklund got away unharmed as the robbers continued their escape. About 10 minutes later, two police officers spotted the robbers' vehicle and followed them. At one stop, both police officers were shot dead with their own guns.

process

During the trial, Arklöv claimed to be innocent because he was in Stockholm . However, his fingerprints were found on the gun and his DNA was found on a mask and in the getaway car.

He then confessed to the robbery in Kisa, but continued to deny having killed the police officers. The court could not prove which of the three perpetrators had fired the fatal shots and sentenced all three to life imprisonment for murder . The verdict was challenged in an appeals court, and Arklöv further denied that he had anything to do with the murders. The appellate court upheld the ruling of the first instance and sentenced all three to life imprisonment. Arklöv later confessed to having killed the police officers and committed several war crimes in Bosnia.

In March 2004 Dagens Nyheter journalist Maciej Zaremba published an article in which he sharply criticized the closure of the case on Arklöv's war crimes after his return to Sweden from Bosnia. He also managed to find several witnesses and victims from Arklöv. In 2004 the public prosecutor's office resumed the investigation; the trial opened on November 10, 2006. Several witnesses and victims of Arklöv's crimes were heard. The judges ruled on December 18, 2006 that Arklöv was guilty of the illegal detention, torture and assault of 11 Bosnian Muslim prisoners of war and civilians, ethnic cleansing, pillage and arbitrary detention of people. He was ordered to pay 11 victims between 70,000 and 425,000 kroner (7,700 to 47,000 euros).

In October 2010, Arklöv applied for a limited term imprisonment, which was rejected.

Web links

Commons : Jackie Arklöv  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jackie Banny Arklöv: Ratsit - free upplysning på och företag private personer . Ratsit.se. Archived from the original on May 31, 2009. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
2. ↑ Domen mot Jackie Arklöv .
3. ↑ Jackie Arklöv Mötte polis Studenter (Swedish) . In: Svenska Dagbladet , November 4, 2006. Archived from the original on May 26, 2007. Retrieved on September 24, 2007. 
4. ↑ Utställning med Arklövs tavlor öppnar i Storuman . June 9, 2007.
5. ↑ Jackie Arklöv vill få tidsbestämt straff .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Jackie Arklöv: “Jag ville vara som alla andra svenskar” . 20th October 2012.
7. ↑ Jackie Arklöv: "Jag ville vara som alla andra svenskar" (sv) . In: op.se , October 20, 2010. Accessed July 25, 2018. 
8. ↑ Bosse Brink: Arklövs offer bröt ihop - SvD .
9. ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on January 1, 2017. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
10. ↑ ^{a b c} En tortyrturist och Hans offer - DN.SE . March 8, 2004.
11. ^ Nazi 'terror' trial shocks Sweden . In: the Guardian . November 28, 1999.
12. ↑ Han kan sätta dit Arklöv för mord - Nyheter - Expressen .
13. ↑ Slutpläderingar i Arklöv-målet . 4th December 2006.
14. ↑ Magnus Sandelin: Den svarte nazisten - Kultur - Expressen .
15. ^ ^{A b} Sveriges Radio: Polismorden i Malexander - P3 Documentary . In: sverigesradio.se .
16. ↑ Malexander - Polismord: Tingsrättens dom i fulltext . In: www.geocities.ws .
17. ↑ Aftonbladet nyheter: Polis Morden i Malexander Domen . In: wwwc.aftonbladet.se .
18. ↑ TT: Bakgrund: Polismorden i Malexander - SvD .
19. ↑ Jackie Arklöv känner polismorden .
20. ↑ Polismördarna väntar på ett liv i frihet - Inloggad - Expressen .
21. ↑ Swedish court convicts defendant of war crimes in the Balkans . setimes.com. December 19, 2006. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved on September 24, 2007.
22. ↑ Josefine Hökerberg: Jackie Arklöv kan vara fri om två år (sv) . In: Aftonbladet , October 11, 2010. Retrieved October 6, 2012. 
23. ^ Rebecka Martikainen: Tony Olsson vill få tidsbestämt straff (sv) . In: Expressen , May 30, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2012. 
24. ↑ Arklöv for inte tidsbestämt straff (sv) . In: Dagens Eko , Sveriges Radio , December 15, 2010. Retrieved October 6, 2012.