The two men are charged with complicity in the shooting in Oslo on 25 June, where two people were killed and 21 were physically injured. Formally, they are charged with complicity in terrorist acts. This is what the Oslo Police District writes in a press release. One man is in his 40s and has Somali citizenship. The other man is in his 30s and is a Norwegian citizen. The man in his 40s will be produced for remand today or tomorrow. Victoria Holmen is appointed as his defender. – He does not understand the charge, writes Holmen in an SMS to news. Well known to the police The accused man in his 30s is well known to the police and PST. He is in his mid-30s and has run a small delivery van company. Now he is involved in a transport company. Before the 17 May celebrations in 2017, the man was arrested and charged with serious illegal possession of firearms. Among other things, the man kept an MP40 submachine gun. It is the same type of weapon Matapour used in the mass shooting in Oslo. In addition, the police found ammunition, magazines and three pistols. The man was charged on 15 May 2019. The following day, the police arrested Arfan Bhatti and charged him with acquiring weapons. VG wrote at the time that the police linked the two together. – Findings in the case make us suspect Arfan Bhatti of having something to do with this, police prosecutor Anne Cathrine Aga told the newspaper in 2017. According to the newspaper, the man who had kept the weapons refused to tell the police who asked him to do so. The reason must have been that the delivery van driver feared for his own safety. However, the man confessed to the possession, and was sentenced to prison for six months for serious illegal possession of firearms. The case against Arfan Bhatti was dismissed on the basis of the evidence. Linked to Arfan Bhatti The accused man is also mentioned in a judgment in which the environment linked to Arfan Bhatti and the Islamist group Prophet’s Ummah is mentioned. Arfan Bhatti is an Islamist who has been the leader of the organization Prophet’s Ummah. The sentence concerns a 17-year-old who was arrested with a bomb-like object in Greenland in April 2017. A witness in the case told the court that he had given the 17-year-old the phone number of the delivery van driver the month before. According to the witness, it was to help the 17-year-old get a job. news knows that PST and the Oslo police district have for a long time been interested in the delivery van driver in connection with the Oslo shooting. In July, police attorney Ingrid Myrold wrote that the police were well aware of the weapons case. – The police are familiar with the information. All forms of history that may be of interest to the case will be reviewed and assessed, Myrold wrote in an e-mail to news. – Has this person who was sentenced in a confessional verdict in 2017 been in for questioning? – I cannot comment on individuals in the case. But all information relating to all forms of history is important to us, and we carefully go through all the information we have, Myrold replied this summer. Now the man is charged in the terrorist case. He has consented to remand. Bhatti still at large On Friday, it became known that a man has been charged with complicity in a terrorist act after the shooting. Sources told news that it was Arfan Bhatti, which the police later confirmed. He is a Norwegian citizen with a Pakistani background, and has been central to the extreme Islamist milieu in Norway. Bhatti has been in Pakistan since May, and is now wanted internationally.
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Two new people arrested and charged after the Oslo shooting – news Oslo and Viken – Local news, TV and radio
