Tag: crime

Thieves target Norwegian hotels

Several hotels in Norway have been the targets of theft in recent weeks and police suspect the crime wave involves bands of highly mobile...

Suspect finally admits to kidnapping

A 28-year-old taxi driver in Oslo who's been held in police custody since early February has finally admitted that he was involved in the...

Proposal to lock up foreign convicts wins support

An Oslo police inspector proposed earlier this week that all foreigners convicted of crimes should be held in locked facilities until they can be...

US enters murdered student’s case

Family and friends of a Norwegian student murdered in London two years ago now hope that American involvement in the case will help them...

Ålesund rape reports were a bluff

Police in the west coast city of Ålesund have determined that several different women filed false reports of rape or attempted rape this winter....

Police investigate prostitute rapes

Police are investigating reports of three rapes of foreign women in Oslo during the past week. A police spokeswoman has described the cases as...

Nigerian swindler strikes again

Four persons in Arendal, on Norway's southern coast, were cheated out of more than half-a-million kroner by a man from Nigeria who claimed he...

Policeman killed in the line of duty

A veteran police officer was run down by a motorist fleeing from a routine police control post on the E-18 highway near Grimstad during...

Concerns gear up over ‘MC clubs’

Norwegian police are growing increasingly worried about the sheer number of motorcycle clubs in the country, their ties to crime and their expansion. Hells...

Thousands gather for funeral of woman kidnapped, murdered

An estimated 3,000 mourners filled an Oslo mosque on Friday to pay their last respects to Faiza Ashraf. The body of the 26-year-old woman,...
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