Peter Mangs, 40, has gone on trial in Sweden after today pleading not guilty to three murders and twelve attempted murders. Mangs is accused of a string of shootings in . File photo of a Glock 19, like Mangs is alleged to have used. The shootings appeared to have targeted immigrants although the prosecution presents the exact motive as unclear; last week prosecutor Solveig Wollstad said "There is a certain level of xenophobia but also other things, like aggression towards people who have previously been found guilty of crime." Lists in Mangs home detailed immigrants, Swedish Jews, and convicts. Wollstad told the court Mangs also had a  pistol, silencer, gun parts, ammunition, wigs, ski masks, knives, combat vest, and a book on John 'Laser Man' Ausonius. Ausonius used a laser-sighted rifle to shoot people in the 1990s in and ; he is serving life for murder and several attempted murders. Local media has compared his case with the present one.
Peter Mangs, 40, has gone on trial in Sweden Monday, pleading not guilty to three murders and twelve attempted murders. Mangs is accused of a string of shootings in . File photo of a Glock 19, like Mangs is alleged to have used. The shootings appeared to have targeted immigrants although the prosecution presents the exact motive as unclear; last week prosecutor Solveig Wollstad said "There is a certain level of xenophobia but also other things, like aggression towards people who have previously been found guilty of crime." Lists in Mangs home detailed immigrants, Swedish Jews, and convicts. Wollstad told the court Mangs also had a 19 pistol, silencer, gun parts, ammunition, wigs, ski masks, knives, combat vest, and a book on John 'Laser Man' Ausonius. Ausonius used a laser-sighted rifle to shoot people in the 1990s in and ; he is serving life for murder and several attempted murders. Local media has compared his case with the present one.
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