Omar Abdalla Aboelazm (born 25 May 1980) is a Swedish citizen who was arrested in Denmark in 2010 over a suspected terror plot against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
[1] Aboelazm was born in Äppelbo, Vansbro Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, to a Swedish mother and an Egyptian father.
[2] One of his half-sisters is a neighbor to Sahbi Zalouti, one of the other suspects who was arrested in the same case.
[3] In 2000 he was sentenced to psychiatric treatment after an assault in 1999 when he also made sexual advances against a 25-year-old woman.
[5] After being transferred to a Swedish prison, he received a number of warnings for refusing to work and disorderly conduct.