Sweden’s ‘racist sniper’ found guilty

Peter Mangs was found guilty of killing Kooros Effatian, a 66-year-old Iranian immigrant, in the victim’s apartment in June 2003.

Malmoe district court said on Tuesday there was “convincing evidence that Peter Mangs has committed 13 (of the 20) crimes he was charged with, including two murders, four attempted murders.”

The 40-year-old Swede was also found guilty for the murder of Trez West Persson, a 20-year-old Swedish woman who was shot while sitting in a parked car next to a friend of immigrant origin

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Mangs was arrested in November 2010 after a massive manhunt for a gunman, which police linked to more than a dozen shootings in 2009-2010.

Investigators later said he was also involved in shootings before that period.

The victims were shot through windows of apartments, businesses, parked cars, or as they were walking along the street. He was also found guilty of three counts of aggravated threats.

Malmo is Sweden’s third-largest city and about 40 percent of the city’s 300,000 residents are first- or second-generation immigrants.

The Malmo District Court also ordered a psychiatric evaluation of the suspect before his sentencing in September.

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