Clark Olofsson has received sentences for attempted murder, assault, robbery, and dealing narcotics and has spent more than half of his life in prison in Sweden.
46 Facts About Clark Olofsson
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Clark Olofsson was born on 1 February 1947 in Trollhattan, Sweden, into a home with extensive alcohol problems.
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Clark Olofsson's mother was a cashier and his father an asphalt worker.
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When Clark Olofsson was 11 years old, his father left the family and soon after, his mother fell ill and was admitted to Lillhagens psychiatric hospital in Hisings Backa.
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Clark Olofsson's problems led to the three children being placed in foster care.
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Clark Olofsson was unhappy in his foster family and to get out of there, he forged his mother's signature and enrolled in a sailors' school.
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For several petty crimes, sixteen-year-old Clark Olofsson was placed in a behavioural institution for young offenders in 1963.
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Three months later, Clark Olofsson assaulted two police officers in Eskilstuna.
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The other burglar was Clark Olofsson, who became a nationally known criminal.
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Two policemen disguised as orienteers, Bertil Brosved and Ulf Hogenberg, tried to arrest him at the same time as Clark Olofsson pulled a pistol out of his waistband and fired two shots.
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Clark Olofsson was first sentenced to ten years in prison, but the Court of Appeal changed the sentence to eight years.
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On 4 February 1969, Clark Olofsson escaped from Kumla Prison and fled to the Canary Islands.
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Clark Olofsson then flew on to Frankfurt am Main where he met a girl he was living with when he was arrested by the German police after Olofsson entered West Germany on a fake passport.
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Clark Olofsson was escorted to the ferry in Travemunde where two Swedish police officers met him.
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Clark Olofsson was then taken via Malmo back to the Kumla Prison.
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In late 1973, Clark Olofsson was incarcerated at the Norrkoping Prison when bankrobber Jan-Erik Olsson took hostages at Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm.
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Olsson demanded that Clark Olofsson be allowed to come to the bank.
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Clark Olofsson was brought to the bank, where he spent the next six days with the hostages.
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Clark Olofsson had, according to himself, acted to protect the hostages and had the silent consent of the police.
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Clark Olofsson was taken back to prison to serve the remainder of his previous sentence.
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Clark Olofsson sought pardon from the government but the application was rejected along with his request to study law.
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One month after the escape, Clark Olofsson was in Marseille on the French Riviera.
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Clark Olofsson escaped and it was not until January 1976 that the police caught up with him and managed to track him down at a crossroads outside Brussels.
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Clark Olofsson managed to shoot himself free; on a train in Germany during this escape, he met 19-year-old Marijke Demuynck.
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On 24 March 1976, Clark Olofsson robbed Handelsbanken on Ostra Hamngatan 27 in Gothenburg of SEK 930,000 - at the time the largest robbery in Swedish criminal history.
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Clark Olofsson was arrested at 22:30, nine hours after the robbery, at hotel Gyllene Karven in Herrljunga.
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In 1979, Clark Olofsson began studies in journalism at Stockholm University.
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Clark Olofsson's studies were interrupted by the verdict, but he eventually graduated in journalism in 1983.
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Clark Olofsson was released in 1983; he then left Sweden with his Belgian wife and settled in her home country.
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Clark Olofsson was sentenced to ten years in prison for complicity in aggravated felony drug offense.
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On 10 October 1991, Clark Olofsson was released, changed his name to Daniel Demuynck, and moved to the Belgian countryside, 80 km outside Brussels.
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In July 1996, Clark Olofsson was arrested outside a bank in Oslo when the police thought he was preparing a robbery.
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Clark Olofsson was extradited to Denmark and after a high-profile trial in Frederikssund, he was sentenced in 1999 to fourteen years in prison for smuggling 49 kilos of amphetamine into Denmark.
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Clark Olofsson was released on parole on 9 May 2005.
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Clark Olofsson was charged at the end of 2008 for trying to smuggle in 100 kilos of amphetamine and 76 kilos of cannabis from the Netherlands.
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Clark Olofsson was sentenced to nine years in prison for his drug dealing and was forced to serve another five years for continuing his crime following a previous conviction.
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When he relapsed into crime after his release in 2005, the district court had confiscated five years of his conditional release of seven years and thus Clark Olofsson's sentence was in practice 14 years.
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Until the autumn of 2012, Clark Olofsson was incarcerated at Saltvik Prison in Harnosand before he was moved to Kumla Prison.
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On 5 March 2013, Clark Olofsson submitted his 24-page application for a new trial to the Supreme Court, where he, among other things, withdrew his involvement.
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In February 2017, Clark Olofsson turned 70 years old and was granted new Swedish citizenship.
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The decision to release Clark Olofsson came after a negotiation on conditional release in Belgium at the end of May 2018.
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On 30 July 2018, Clark Olofsson landed at Landvetter Airport outside Gothenburg, Sweden as a free man.
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On 7 July 1967, Clark Olofsson became engaged to Madiorie Britmer in prison.
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Clark Olofsson married Marijke from Belgium in 1976; they occasionally lived in a larger house in the Belgian countryside.
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Clark Olofsson has six children, of which the youngest son is with his current fiancee; three older sons with his former wife Marijke, and two daughters from before his marriage.
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Norrmalmstorgsdramat inifran is an interview with the bank-robber Jan-Erik Olsson, who demanded for Clark Olofsson to be allowed to come to the bank.