Jackie Arklöv
Swedish criminal
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- Jackie Banny Arklöv (born 6 June 1973) is a Swedish convicted murderer and bankrobber.
- Early life Arklöv was born in Liberia; his mother was a Liberian woman and his father was European.
- At the age of three he was initially adopted by a couple from Norway and later relocated with his family to Sweden at the age of seven and grew up in the Lapland village of Ankarsund.
- Arklöv told the police that he received corporal punishment, which has been illegal in Sweden since 1979, from his adoptive parents from grade 1 to 8.
- As a child he also tried "colouring" his skin white at school by using flour.
Jackie Banny Arklöv (born 6 June 1973) is a Swedish convicted murderer and bankrobber. Arklöv is an ex-neo-Nazi, Yugoslav Wars mercenary and war criminal, who, with two other neo-Nazis, murdered two police officers after a bank robbery in 1999.
Early life
Arklöv was born in Liberia; his mother was a Liberian woman and his father was European. He also briefly had a white American stepfather, who later rejected Arklöv's attempts to contact him. At the age of three he was initially adopted by a couple from Norway and later relocated with his family to Sweden at the age of seven and grew up in the Lapland village of Ankarsund. Arklöv was reportedly the only adopted child in the town and he has said that he had a hard time fitting in when growing up, and being both bullied and also bullying others. Arklöv told the police that he received corporal punishment, which has been illegal in Sweden since 1979, from his adoptive parents from grade 1 to 8.
Arklöv apparently had an identity crisis as a young boy and tried scrubbing his skin to make it white. As a child he also tried "colouring" his skin white at school by using flour. In his teens he developed a strong interest in Nazism and World War II. He has later said that he became a Nazi, among several reasons, because he "was lonely and full of hate" and "identified with those who were the losers" in the war, as he "felt as one" himself.
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