– First of all, I am happy to meet you here. We have been in the Cabinet now, and I want to tell you that the matter is not at rest, said Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre when he met the campaigners outside the Palace. The Fosen Actionists started the demonstration in front of the Castle on Friday. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland met the campaigners in the castle square. – It has almost been 100 new days of violations of rights and breaches of trust. It is unacceptable. We have given up on Aasland and OED, who insist on a rematch through new investigations instead of complying with the Supreme Court’s ruling, says leader of NSR-u Elle Nystad. On Friday morning, the campaigners set up lavvos outside all the entrances to the Prime Minister’s office. Now several of the campaigners have also chained themselves together. The Fosen campaigners outside one of the entrances to the Prime Minister’s office Photo: Dag Robert Johansen / news – It puts the whole of democracy and the rule of law in great danger. Now we ask the prime minister to take responsibility, as he promised us personally during the previous actions. That’s why we camp outside his office and guard the entrance in the last hours before the 600 day. We demand that the turbines be demolished and the land returned to reindeer husbandry, says Nystad. Going to spend the night After the Cabinet meeting, the campaigners announced that they were going on to the Prime Minister’s office to establish a blockade and set up levees. They plan to spend the night outside the Prime Minister’s office in the last hours until June 3, when 600 days have passed since the Supreme Court ruled that the wind power plants at Fosen entail an ongoing human rights violation against the Sami. In a press release, the campaigners write that they have sleeping bags and chains with them, and that they will not move if the police ask them to. Photo: Lars Nehru Sand / news Campaigned earlier On the night of Monday, February 27, 13 young people were carried out by the police after campaigning at the Ministry of Oil and Energy (OED) for almost four days. The action started 500 days after the Supreme Court, on 11 October 2021, determined that the wind power plant at Fosen in Trøndelag conflicts with indigenous rights. They campaigned with demands that the Supreme Court judgment must be followed and the wind turbines demolished. Let them make their mark Operations manager at the Oslo Police, Sven Christian Lie, answers this to how the police react to the action. – Now they are making their mark, and they should be allowed to do that. – Have you deployed any extra crew? – We now have extensive experience with markings and demonstrations in the city of Oslo, and plan based on what we receive. We have enough personnel to handle this. One of the demonstrators slams his fist against one of the government’s cars on Friday morning. Photo: Inga Maret Solberg / news – Sad and embarrassed Former Sámi parliament president and now adviser at Amnesty, Aili Keskitalo, says it is no coincidence that they are campaigning again today. – It is a special day. The Truth and Research Commission handed over its report yesterday. it is sad and embarrassing that the Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, who I know as a human rights defender in all other contexts, that he can really break his promises to Sami youth, says Keskitalo.
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Has chained himself in front of the Prime Minister’s office – news Sápmi
