Parents face new tough week in court

Nearly all the parents of young Labour Party members killed in a terrorist’s massacre on the island of Utøya were opting to appear in court in Oslo this week, to be there when the autopsy reports of their murdered children were to be examined. “This is all about showing opposition to (the man) who did [...]

Terror trial resumes with shorter days in court, to relieve mental stress

The trial of Norway’s home-grown terrorist resumed on Thursday after a five-day break, and shorter days in court are now part of the plan for proceedings. As testimony turns to the autopsy reports of 69 more victims, attorneys agreed that shorter days were necessary in order to relieve the mental stress of the subject matter [...]

Song protest provoked Breivik supporters

While tens of thousands of Norwegians sang out against confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik last week, others were sounding off through online debate in support of Breivik. He killed 77 persons last summer in attacks he claims were motivated by his opposition to immigration. News bureau NTB reported that Norwegian law student Magnus Forsberg was [...]

Man’s body found in illegally parked car

Police found the body of a man in car parked illegally in the affluent residential neighborhood of Montebello in Oslo late Thursday night. Residents in the area had notified police about the car earlier in the evening. Because the notification seemed to involve a simple traffic violation, police didn’t make the call they received around [...]

More survivors testify in terror trial

Norway’s difficult terror trial continued Friday with more survivors of the bomb attack on Norway’s government testifying about their ordeal and their injuries. All involved could look forward to a long weekend break in the grim proceedings, however, and several survivors were also cheered by Thursday’s outpouring of support through roses and song. Tuesday, May [...]

Investigation continues into shooting at Ås

UPDATED: Police were continuing their search for a gunman who shot a 66-year-old man in the back near the train station in Ås, south of Oslo, Wednesday evening.  They had few leads and no suspects as of Friday morning. The victim  was rushed by air ambulance to Oslo University Hospital Ullevål where his condition was [...]

Breivik defends his mental health

Anders Behring Breivik claims he slept well, ate breakfast and even prepared a lunch bag for himself (a baguette with ham and cheese) before he embarked on his terrorist attacks that killed 77 persons last summer. Breivik was back on the witness stand Wednesday, bashing a psychiatrists’ report that he’s insane and spending hours defending [...]

First survivor tells his story in court

Eivind Dahl Thoresen, a law student at the University of Bergen, was walking home from his summer job on the afternoon of July 22 when the bomb went off that could have killed him. On Wednesday, he was in court in Oslo on crutches, the first survivor to testify in the trial of confessed terrorist [...]

Former broker sentenced for massive tax evasion

One of Norway’s most high-profile stock brokers of the past decade, Bjørn Arne Fredrik Sellæg, has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison after what the court called the largest personal tax evasion case in the country’s history.  The Oslo City Court noted in its ruling that never before has a private person in Norway [...]

Krekar deportation talks resume

Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was in Norway this week for talks with Norwegian officials that included a pending deportation of Mullah Krekar, the Islamic cleric who’s been deemed a threat to Norway’s national security. Norwegian officials were once again unable, however, to extract the guarantee they need that Krekar, a former guerrilla leader in [...]

Top bureaucrat sentenced to jail for forging her credentials

Liv Løberg, who held a series of top bureaucratic posts within the public sector, has been sentenced to 14 months in jail and ordered to repay NOK 1 million in wages to which she was not entitled. Løberg, who also was a reserve Member of Parliament for the conservative Progress Party from 2001 to 2005, [...]

Politicians debate security measures

Nine months after a terrorist’s bomb severely damaged Norway’s government headquarters and left eight people dead, the street running by the country’s Parliament building just a few blocks away remains open to traffic. Neither city nor state politicians have ordered the street blocked off, and they’re still debating other security measures as well. Nor have [...]

Flowers brighten dark days in court

Everyone using the main entrance into the Oslo City Court is now met by a growing array of flowers that Norwegians have been placing in honor of the victims of last summer’s terrorist attacks. As testimony at the terrorist’s trial turned on Tuesday to autopsy reports and details of his bombing, the flowers offered a [...]

Commission questions sanity report

New questions arose on Monday over a second court-appointed psychiatrists’ report that found terror defendant Anders Behring Brevik to be sane and not suffering from psychosis. A state commission that reviews such reports has asked for additional information. The commission doesn’t think that the two psychiatrists who examined Breivik before his trial started last week [...]

Breivik’s ‘apology’ branded ‘pathetic’

‘Terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik issued what he called was a “full apology” to some of those injured and killed in his bomb attack on Norway’s government last summer, but only those who had no ties to the state ministries he was targeting. A representative for all victims of the bombing called his apology “pathetic.” Breivik, [...]

« Previous Page — Next Page »