Zaniar Matapour (44) was arrested by the police shortly after the shooting on 25 June last year, and has since been in custody and charged with terrorism. Now he is being prosecuted. He fired a total of 18 shots at the people who were at Per på Hjørnet and London Pub during the terror attack on 25 June last year. This is revealed in the indictment that was brought against Matapour on Friday. The indictment is based on the fact that Matapour, after taking an oath of allegiance to IS, went to the area around the London pub and Per på Hjørnet, where at least 560 people stayed. This was the night before the Pride parade was to go off in the center of Oslo. STATE ATTORNEY: Sturla Henriksbø. Photo: Trond Reidar Teigen / NTB – He fired a number of shots at the crowd with a pistol and a machine gun. Two were killed, several were injured and even more were in immediate danger. The attack caused great fear, says state prosecutor Sturla Henriksbø. The trial runs from 11 March to 16 May 2024. news has not yet received a comment from Matapour’s defender Marius Dietrichson. 30-year penalty framework Serious acts of terrorism can be punished with imprisonment for up to 30 years, according to section 132 of the Criminal Code. – We will decide what our specific criminal allegation will be after the evidence has been presented in court, says state prosecutor Aud Kinsarvik Gravås. STATE ATTORNEY: Aud Kinsarvik Gravås. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB There are four other accused in the case. – The investigation against these others is not finished. And although the prosecution had wanted a simultaneous decision against all those charged in the case, that has not been possible. Two of the accused are staying abroad and we think it will take some time before they return to Norway, says state attorney Gravås. John Christian Elden, who defends Arfan Bhatti, says the following about the case against Matapour. – Bhatti has not been asked to testify, so we cannot decide on that. He has little to add to the case beyond the fact that he knows Matapour, says Elden. DEFENDER: John Christian Elden defends Arfan Bhatti. Photo: Annika Byrde / NTB Oslo police district charged a total of five people with complicity in serious terrorism. Now Matapour is charged with aggravated terrorism. This week, news asked questions about what makes the charges relate to serious terrorism. – It is based on an overall assessment of the case. And especially because two people were killed and many were affected by what happened, says police attorney Ingvild Myrold in the Oslo police district. Two people were killed and nine injured when Zaniar Matapour shot at the pubs Per på kørnket and London pub in central Oslo on the night of 25 June last year. The Oslo Police District sent its proposal for a prosecution decision against Zaniar Matapour to the Oslo State Attorney’s Office on 31 August. Thinks Matapour is trying to recruit inmates The 44-year-old was recently moved to the high-risk ward. Part of the reason for the move to high security at Ullersmo is said to be that the Correctional Service believes the 44-year-old is trying to recruit inmates. And that inmates are planning to attack prison staff. He was already isolated due to a violent incident in the prison, and the Prison and Probation Service writes in a recommendation that the isolation is due to his behavior in prison: “Due to observations made by the prison and the charge, we find it likely that the accused has affiliation with an organized criminal environment with radicals Islamists. We suspect that he is trying to recruit inmates and forge ties with like-minded people, and that this increases the risk of a new incident taking place,” says the setting referred to in the ruling. Believes it contravenes human rights In the district court last week, Dietrichson stated that the isolation of Matapour in prison contravenes his human rights. He was not successful in this. This is revealed in a recent ruling from the Oslo district court. Matapour’s defense announced that they will appeal the case. – We are satisfied that the court agrees with us that the court must be able to test the necessity of the isolation. Both the police, prosecution and correctional services disagreed with that, he says to news. He calls the ruling “deficient”. – The law’s requirement that isolation be the last resort has not been assessed. news was recently able to tell that Zaniar Matapour left his smartphone at home, but wrote down nine phone numbers on notes he had in his pocket. Three of the men he had the numbers for during the attack on 25 June have also been charged in the case.
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