Tag: crime

Mosques hit by threats, harassment

Several mosques in Norway have been threatened in recent weeks and the local Islamic Council (Islamsk Råd) fears a new wave of hate and...

Rape report rocks the Progress Party

UPDATED: Two Progress Party officials have been suspended after a female party colleague reported to police that they'd raped her after a pre-election event...

Stabbed 13-year-old released from hospital

A 13-year-old girl who was the victim of an unprovoked stabbing while walking to school last week has been released from hospital in Tromsø....

Supreme Court toughens up

UPDATED: Norway's highest court issued what's being called an historically tough prison sentence against a convicted sex offender on Thursday. By ordering disgraced mayor...

Man convicted of threats against NAV

A 32-year-old man in Bergen has been convicted of making around 800 threats against state welfare agency NAV and his local NAV office. He...

‘Home alone’ party ended in death

A party held at the home of a teenager whose parents weren't there ran seriously out of control over the weekend after word of...

Police seized homemade bombs

Police are still investigating the seizure last week of two homemade bombs found in a house in the west coast city of Kristiansund, where...

13-year-old stabbed on way to school

A small community in northern Norway was shaken this week after a man in his early 60s stabbed a 13-year-old girl as she walked...

Airport re-opens after bomb threat

UPDATED: Bergen's Flesland Airport was open for normal traffic again on Thursday morning, with most flights running on time, after a bomb threat was...

Sigrid likely beaten in camping van

Crime technicians and police investigators believe 16-year-old Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne was subjected to blows from a blunt weapon while she was held inside a...

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