Tag: crime

Drama at Stortinget ends in resignation

UPDATED: The new and suddenly embattled president of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget), Eva Kristin Hansen, had earlier refused to give up her second-most powerful...

Customs agents nabbed haul of dead birds

A group of hunters from Italy were recently stopped while boarding a ferry in Kristiansand, just before they were about to smuggle more than...

‘Police need help’ in a nervous Oslo

A recent rash of shootings, robberies and now even another threatening situation in broad daylight have suddenly raised questions about how safe a city...

Wrongly jailed CEO ‘not bitter’

Thorleif Enger, former chief executive of the large state-controlled fertilizer producer Yara, was charged, indicted, arrested and even briefly jailed for corruption before a...

Surveillance cables mysteriously cut

A unique underwater observatory in strategic waters off the coast of Northern Norway has been knocked out of service, after more than 4.3 kilometers...

Man ravages 1000-year-old church

Police and residents of the Norwegian coastal city of Grimstad were dealing this week with a grim and highly disturbing attack on their oldest...

New minister faces shootings, tragedy

Emilie Enger Mehl has had to hit the ground running in her new job as Norway's justice minister in charge of both police and...

Local politician cleared of corruption charges

A court covering a wide area northeast of Oslo acquitted the former mayor of Nittedal,  Hilde Thorkildsen of the Labour Party, and a local...

Man attacked guests at a nightclub

Police had to evacuate a packed nightclub in Tønsberg at around 2am on Sunday, after a man started attacking other guests with pepper spray...

Kongsberg’s victims’ names released

Police in Kongsberg, the small historic city that was stunned by what most call a senseless massacre last week, released the names during the...
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