What the records say
- When
- 28 May 1999
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 2
- Coordinates
- 58.03° N, 15.28° E
- Description
- murders of two police officers at Malexander, Sweden
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Malexander murders
Murders of two police officers at Malexander, Sweden
The Malexander murders were the murders of two police officers, Robert Karlström and Olle Borén, at Malexander, Sweden, on 28 May 1999. The murders were committed after a bank robbery in Kisa earlier that day. Three men were convicted of the crimes, Tony Olsson, Andreas Axelsson and former mercenary Jackie Arklöv. The murders in Malexander were among the most high-profile cases in Sweden.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Two Swedish police officers are wounded by bank robbers armed with automatic firearms, and later executed with their own service pistols in Malexander, Sweden”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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