On 9 December 2022, the farmer Hans Arne Nystad was shot and killed by the police in Lavangen in Troms. A police patrol of two was on the scene, because they had been asked to assist health personnel who were on their way to the address. It was Nystad himself who had called AMK. Nystad was in the cab of a wheel loader when the police arrived at the scene. The wheel loader was then set in motion, and is said to have driven towards the uniformed police car, so that it overturned. An official was inside the police car. The other got out before it overturned. The latter then fired 18–19 shots at the cab, so that Nystad died. – In the Bureau’s view, there is no doubt that the incident involved a very serious and life-threatening attack against the service personnel, says a press release from the Bureau. The Bureau believes that the police were in an obvious emergency situation when the shots were fired, and dismisses the case because no criminal relationship is considered proven. The pictures show the wheel loader that the man is said to have been driving when he was shot by the police on the night of Friday 9 December. Video: Hanne Wilhelms / news Necessary use of firearms The Bureau believes that the police officer’s use of firearms was necessary to stop a life-threatening attack. – Less invasive action options were not applicable in the situation, and the Bureau has assumed that it was not possible to stop the wheel loader in any other way than by shooting at the driver, they write in the conclusion. The result of the investigation, which was completed at the end of May, speaks to the fact that the police did not act criminally when they opened fire. It refers, among other things, to the fact that there is no doubt that the firing stopped the wheel loader, thereby saving the police officer who was in the car from injury or death. The code on the investigation into murder During the investigation, information was uncovered which led the Bureau of Police Affairs, which investigated the case, to change the suspicion clause. At first the police officer was investigated for grievous bodily harm resulting in death, but this was later changed to murder. The police have stated that their officers experienced the situation as life-threatening when the man drove towards them in the wheel loader. In an interview with Politiforum, both officers said that they thought “now I’m going to die”. At the end of May. Then the head of the Bureau of Police Affairs, Halvor Hjelm-Hansen, said that they should decide whether it was an emergency guardian, and thus whether the murder is exempt from punishment.
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Dismissed as no criminal offense – news Troms and Finnmark
