Tag: kidnapping
Kidnappers offer to prove Hagen is alive
Criminals claiming to have abducted the wife of a wealthy Norwegian businessman are now offering to prove she's still alive. The family has had...
Kidnappers took contact again
Police announced Monday that there has been new contact between the Hagen family of Lørenskog and those who claim to have kidnapped the family's...
Kidnappers finally sent a message
The family of a 68-year-old Norwegian woman who disappeard last autumn has finally received a message from those who claim to have kidnapped her....
Still no contact from woman’s kidnappers
There still haven't been any signs of life from Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, the 68-year-old wife of wealthy Norwegian investor Tom Hagen. Police still believe...
Tips pour in from public in kidnapping case
Police have received more than 600 tips from the public regarding the mysterious disappearance and suspected kidnapping of the wife of a wealthy Norwegian...
Kidnapping silence spurs media debate
NEWS ANALYSIS: Norwegian police said Friday that they've received more than 250 tips from the public in the two days since they finally confirmed...
Kidnapping shocks ‘naive’ Norwegians
"Norwegians are naive when it comes to their own security," claimed a former police investigator to newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN), after the kidnapping of...
Victim’s family won’t pay out ransom
The Oslo lawyer representing the family of kidnapped Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen said Wednesday afternoon that they had followed police advice and would not meet...
Former hostage glad to be back home
Kjartan Sekkingstad, the man from Norway's west coast who was seized by a guerrilla group in the Philippines last year, landed back in Oslo...
Hostage: ‘We were treated like a slave’
Freed Norwegian hostage Kjartan Sekkingstad, looking haggard and clearly exhausted after spending nearly a year in the clutches of an Islamic guerrilla group in...
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