Norway archery rampage suspect is radicalized Muslim convert, incident investigated as terror assault: Police
Norway’s police drive says that the suspect who’s accused of killing 5 individuals with a bow and several other arrows Wednesday was beforehand identified to them as a radicalized Muslim convert and that it’s investigating the incident as a terrorist assault.
The Norwegian nationwide police company, identified by the acronym PST, recognized the suspect as Danish citizen Espen Andersen Brathen, 37. Regional police chief Ole Bredrup Saeverud stated Brathen is a “convert to Islam” at a press convention Thursday, and “there earlier had been worries of the person having been radicalized.”
MAN KILLS SEVERAL PEOPLE IN BOW AND ARROW ATTACK IN NORWAY
Police obtained calls {that a} man was capturing at individuals with a bow and arrow within the small city of Kongsberg shortly after 6 p.m. native time. They glimpsed the male suspect at 6:18 p.m., however he evaded seize till 6:47 p.m. The PST stated that almost all, if not all, of the killings occurred within the half-hour between police arriving on the scene and apprehending the suspect. Authorities consider he acted alone.
4 ladies and one man between the ages of fifty and 70 had been killed, and three different victims had been injured.
“The incidents in Kongsberg seem in the mean time as an act of terrorism, however the investigation, which is led by the South-East police district, will make clear in additional element what the incidents had been motivated by,” the PST stated in a press release.
“Assaults on random individuals in public locations are a recurring modus operandi amongst extremist Islamists finishing up terror within the West ,” the assertion learn.
The assault occurred the night time earlier than Norway’s new authorities assumed workplace. The elections final month unseated the Conservative Celebration, with the Labour Celebration assuming energy Thursday. The outgoing and incoming prime ministers expressed horror on the assault, together with King Harald V. Norway is a comparatively peaceable nation with low charges of violent crime.
