Jackie Arklöv
| Jackie Arklöv | |
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Jackie Arklöv mug-shot
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| Born |
6 June 1973 Liberia |
| Occupation | Mercenary, criminal |
| Criminal charge | 1993 Crimes against humanity in Bosnia 1999 murder of two police officers in Sweden |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
| Criminal status | Imprisoned at Anstalten Storboda |
| Killings | |
| Killed | 2 |
Jackie Banny Arklöv (born 6 June 1973) is a Swedish convicted criminal. Arklöv is an ex-neo-Nazi and Yugoslav Wars mercenary and war criminal, who, with two other neo-Nazis, murdered two police officers during a car chase in 1999.
Arklöv was born in Liberia; his mother was black and his father was white. At the age of three he was adopted by a couple from Sweden. In his teens he developed a strong interest in Nazism and World War II. 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. Being African, he probably turned to neo-Nazism out of self-loathing from not fitting in, and wanting to belong to something extreme.
Arklöv participated voluntarily in the war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, as a mercenary on the Croatian side when he was 19 years old. Arklöv was a convinced neo-nazi at that time and he wanted to "experience war". As he read history he studied the fascist Ustasha whose extreme violence he got fascinated by. At first he travelled from Sweden to join the French foreign legion but he heard that they weren't participating in any wars, so he continued until he reached Yugoslavia where he joined a croatian neo-ustasha unit "for special purposes" called Ludvig Pavlovic. He kept a war diary which has yet to be released to the public, but in which he wrote down his experiences. He participated in heavy and violent battles and committed crimes against civilians in villages. The unit sometimes dressed in ski-masks when they were going on "special missions" as they called it, which would often include breaking international law against human rights.
Not much is known about the group but Swedish journalist Magnus Sandelin wrote a book about Arklöv called "The Black Nazi" ("Den Svarte Nazisten") detailing his childhood and his time in the war. He once sent a package home to his family during Christmas which contained the cap or hat of a killed soldier. Arklöv's mother said she felt disgusted when she opened it.
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