(Kansberg, Norway) In this case the archery attack that killed five people in Norway looks like a “terrorist act” as the Norwegian Security Services (BST) helps to coordinate the trail of terrorist Islamists on Thursday.
Earlier, the 37-year-old accused in Wednesday’s mourning attack on the city of Kansberg, who had converted to Islam and was a suspect of past extremism, had already pointed out that the animated motives had not been deliberately ended. It.
“The events in Kansberg have the appearance of a terrorist act at this point, but are under investigation […] That fact must be taken into account. ”
The suspect, a Danish citizen and resident of this small uninhabited small town about 80 kilometers west of Oslo, was arrested on Wednesday evening after an unusually bloody attack.
The man, who admitted the facts during an interrogation of him at night, said the PST knew “without further ado”.
“Previously there were fears related to intensification,” police officer Ole Frederip Severut told a news conference. Those fears were 2020 and earlier, and were the reason for the police pursuit, he said.
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Officer Ole Frederip Severut held a press conference Thursday and issued a statement about the attack.
The attack, which shocked the peaceful Scandinavian kingdom, left five people dead and two wounded, having already suffered two extreme right-wing attacks over the past two decades.
The attack took place at several locations in a large area of Kansberg, including a supermarket. A policeman who was not on duty there at the time was injured.
Moderate threat
Police said the attacker may have acted alone.
The PST has not changed the scale of its attack threat in the country it is considered an “attack”.
The victims were four women and a man between the ages of 50 and 70. As for the two injured, they are not in critical condition.
The suspect is scheduled to appear before a judge on Friday in custody. According to the attorney general of the case, he should also undergo psychiatric examinations.
According to his lawyer, Frederick Newman, the man “describes himself in detail, he speaks well with the police and cooperates”.
Police were alerted at 6:12 pm (Montreal time 12:12 pm) and arrested the suspect half an hour later, at 6:47 pm when they were stopped and shot with arrows. Responded with warning shots.
In the first pictures of the crime released on Wednesday evening, we see black arrows, with the appearance of a match, lying on the ground or one of them, firmly embedded in the wall.
The suspect also used other weapons, the nature of which is not specified, police say.
“It’s Kabul”
The testimonies explained the terrifying feeling that gripped the people of Kansberg.
“I thought it was Kabul,” Thomas Nilsson, who was at home, suddenly heard screams.
Nut Olav was about to smoke a cigarette on the doorstep when he sank into the middle of the tragedy.
“I saw my friend covering the back of a car and suddenly heard a noise. I was an archer, I felt the sound of the bow and the arrow reaching the road,” the 50-year-old told AFP.
“After that, I saw a man pull a baby out of the car and run towards my house,” he said.
The attack comes on the last day of an order by Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who on Thursday handed over power to the new center-left government led by Jonas Kahar Store, who won the September 13 assembly election.
The new head of government has condemned the “atrocities.”
“We are appalled by the tragic events in Kansberg,” said King Harold V, while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “shocked and saddened”.
Several planned Islamic attacks in Norway have been thwarted in the past.
But the Scandinavian country has suffered two extreme right-wing attacks in the last ten years, most notably on July 22, 2011, when Anders Behring Breivik (77 died).
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