Kongsberg: The murder of five people in Norway in a Bow-and-Arrow attack seems to be a “acts of terror,” said Norwegian security services on Thursday, with the suspect, a Danish Muslim repentance, already above fear he has been committed.
Four women and a man died and two others were injured on Wednesday in the southeast city of Kongsberg in the most deadly attack on the Norwegian in a decade.
“The event at Kongsberg is currently seen as an act of terror, but an investigation …
will determine what is more detail motivated by the action,” said Norwegian intelligence services in a statement.
“We are talking about conversion to Islam,” said the official Police Ole Bredrup Saeverud told reporters on Thursday, added: “There was a concern related to the previous radicalization.” Saeverud said the 37-year-old suspect admitted to the facts of this problem during interrogation.
Those who were killed during the attack were all aged between 50 and 70.
“We are investigating between other things to determine whether this is an act of terror,” Saeverud added.
The report that connects it to the radicalization of pre-dated this year, said Saeverud, and the police have followed up at that time.
“We don’t have a report about him in 2021, but before,” he said.
“We are relatively sure that he acts alone.” PST also confirmed that the suspect was known to them but added “more details about him.” It is also said that they do not believe the level of threat in the country has changed, describing it as “moderate”.
“Our evaluation is that what happened in Kongsberg, Wednesday, October 13 did not change the assessment of the national threat,” said PST.
It was the deadliest attack since the far extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in 2011.
Since then, Norway has seen one other far attack, carried out by Neo-Nazis who proclaimed him who fired into a mosque.
On Thursday mostly quiet in Kongsberg, a beautiful city of 25,000 people with wooden facades and leaves that change the color for the fall.
The streets are almost empty with only a light police presence.
Some police officers stood outside the shop where some attacks occurred.
The glass door there was peeled off by a shot.
Two candles blink outside the city church.
The suspect will appear before the judge on Friday for the hearing of custody.
He underwent a psychiatric examination on Thursday, the prosecutor said.
The victims have not been named in public, but one of the injured is a police officer who is not on duty who has been in a shop.
Norwegian media asked why it took the police more than half an hour to arrest the suspect after the first report of the attack.
The police were told about the attack at 18:13 (1613 GMT) and the suspect was arrested at 6:47 a.m.
He fired an arrow to the police, who responded with warning shots, said Saeverud.
Thomas Nilsen was at home when he heard a scream and said the picture of the war was crossed.
“I thought it was Kabul,” he told AFP.
“I heard children screaming, barking and then the sound of a helicopter that circled around my house,” said Kristiansen, another witness, said.
“I don’t sleep much,” he added.
The image in the media shows black arrows sticking from the wall and what looks like a competition class arrow lying on the ground.
Police said on Thursday the suspects also used other weapons, but did not provide details.
“This event shook us,” said Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who resigned on Thursday, was replaced by Jonas Gahr Store, whose Hurend Party won the parliamentary election recently.
The store regretted the “terrible action”, while King Harald Norwegia said he was “surprised by tragic events”.
Norwegian police were usually unarmed, but after the attack, the National Police Directorate ordered that national armed officers.
Norway rarely experienced such violence, but 10 years ago Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in the country’s worst massacre since World War II.
Breivik first triggered a bomb in Oslo next to the building that accommodated the office of the Prime Minister, then continued the shooting in the summer camp for the left-wing youth on Utoya Island.
Some planned jihadist attacks have also been thwarted by security services.