Tag: crime

Drunks spoil some 17th of May celebrations

Police were busy in many Norwegian cities after Constitution Day celebrations on the 17th of May. Unruly drunks including youth as young as 13...

Police brutality in Norway, too

Norway is known for its mostly unarmed and friendly police officers, but a few of them went amok against two young men in Kongsberg...

Youngsters suspected of arson at school

Police in Oslo suspect a group of youngsters, all under the age of 15, are behind an explosive fire at a high school in...

Russ on the loose again, and in hospital

Norway's graduating high school seniors known as russ (roughly prounced "roose") have once again launched their annual season of wild partying, and it immediately landed...

Even more cocaine seized, this time attached to a ship’s hull

Norwegian authorities mounted an unusual operation this month that resulted in the largest cocaine seizure ever in Western Norway, and the arrests of six...

PST’s deputy leader bails out

Hedvig Moe was acting leader of Norway's domestic intelligence agency PST until Beate Gangås took over full time in December. Now Moe is leaving...

More cocaine seized in Oslo

For the second time in less than three weeks, Oslo police have seized as much as 900 kilos of cocaine found in boxes of...

Police armed after Steinkjer attack

UPDATED: Norwegian police were ordered to carry weapons nationwide during the Easter holiday weekend, after a man with a record of suspected terrorism ran...

Tips led to huge cocaine seizure in Oslo

Police in Oslo still faced lots of unanswered questions heading into the weekend, after being tipped that cartons of fruit shipped from Ecuador contained...

Radicalized sisters jailed on return from Syria

Two sisters from Bærum who voluntarily joined the IS terror group are now in custody back home in Norway after nearly 10 years in...
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