A man has now been charged for hanging up the posters that had the police logo and the text “WANTED”. The man in his 40s must appear in the Oslo district court on January 23, charged “for having violated the peace of another through intimidating or troublesome behavior or other reckless behavior.” People could see the posters in several places in central Oslo this summer. They were also shared by the public on social media. The man has admitted to putting up “wanted” posters of Evanger and the policeman Jan Erik Bresil. Leader Bresil and deputy leader Evanger are both involved in the Norwegian Narcotics Police Association (NNPF). – He does not plead guilty, as the posters must be considered protected by freedom of expression, writes defender Jon Wessel-Aas in an e-mail to news. Lawyer Jon Wessel-Aas. Photo: Gorm Kallestad / NTB State Attorney Geir Evanger, who in this case has the status of offended party, is satisfied that charges have been brought and that the man has acknowledged putting up the posters. – I am of the opinion that he has crossed the line of what is punishable and that it is more of an attack on freedom of expression because it is an attempt to get us not to participate in the debate, says Evanger to news. – Satirical criticism It was Avisa Oslo that first mentioned the indictment. The man’s defender says the client has put up the posters as an obvious “satirical criticism of the leader and deputy leader of the Norwegian Narcotics Police Association, who are also a police officer and state prosecutor respectively”. Policeman Jan Erik Bresil photographed by news on another occasion in 2016. Photo: Kjetil Solhøi, news – They have both been active in the public debate on Norwegian drug policy, as opponents of decriminalization and also as both practitioners of and advocates of the use of coercive measures against suspected users of drugs, which the Attorney General has determined to have been illegal, says Wessel-Aas. He believes that the two victims are both “highly public figures, both by virtue of their active participation in the public debate and by virtue of their powerful positions in the police and the public prosecutor’s office respectively.” – In other words, both their faces and their roles in the context are well known to the public, says Jon Wessel-Aas. “Operation Hunger” and NNPF criticism There is a QR code on each of the two posters which Wessel-Aas believes provides context. By scanning the QR code on Evanger’s poster, you can access Advokatbladet’s article about the so-called “Hunger” case in which the police used illegal police provocation during “Operation Hunger”. Several of the defendants were acquitted of drug offences. Evanger was one of the state prosecutors who brought the case to court. The Court of Appeal believed that one could not disregard the fact that 20 kilograms of MDMA would never have been introduced into Norway, if it were not for the police’s undercover agents’ involvement in the case. The police never intended to lose control of the drugs. On the poster by Bresil, you could scan your way to the Role Understanding Committee, a committee to examine the mix of roles in the NNPF case. The poster also stated that he was “WANTED”, that he had been charged with illegal detergent use, illegal beekeeping and pretending to be from the police. Wessel-Aas believes that these websites on the posters are part of the statements and puts them in context. – It therefore surprises my client that the authorities are prosecuting an opponent of Bresil and Evanger, who presents an obviously satirical criticism of them and their complex and, in the defendant’s view, intermingled roles in the debate, says Wessel-Aas. Claims 50,000 in compensation State Attorney Geir Evanger announces a claim for compensation of NOK 50,000. – What I am concerned about are the accusations against me, and that I should have something to do with it. Then I understand that it is a kind of irony. But there is a limit to how far you can go, and what you have to put up with for things you have been involved in as a public prosecutor, says Evanger. The public prosecutor says he is used to accusations in the comments section, but he says he found the posters “extremely unpleasant”. – I have been involved in everything possible in the comment fields and live with it just fine, but the fact that the posters appear everywhere and are spread to everyone gives a whole that is not good. It would have been different if he told me directly. Then I thought “okay, you don’t mean this”. news has not been able to get a comment from Jan Erik Bresil on Friday.
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