The documentary “Ingen elsker Bamsegut” has received tremendous attention after its premiere on news last Wednesday. On Sunday afternoon, news reports that the series will be removed temporarily. – news believes that “No one loves Bamsegut” is an important story about how the weakest in society are treated by the public. During production, we found out that Granfoss had a moral judgment against him from 1991, says Marius Lillelien, director of the district division in a press release. Omitted information – acknowledges error ANSWERS FOR news: Director of the District Division Marius Lillelien Photo: Ole Kaland / news “news chose not to include the morality judgment in the series for two reasons. Most important was consideration for the aggrieved; primarily those who were small children at the time, but also consideration for Granfoss himself and his family. The second was that the verdict had no direct relevance to the series, which is about a Norwegian family stranded in the Philippines without being able to get home to Norway,” writes news in the press release. “We see today that it was a mistake to omit this information from the series, and we are therefore now making a new assessment. The judgment against Granfoss has become public knowledge. We will therefore look at how this information should be included. We will do this as quickly as possible. In the meantime, the series will be unavailable on news TV. A new version of the series with corrected information will be published when it is ready, says director of the District Division Marius Lillelien. Premiere last Wednesday, episode 1 was broadcast on NRK1 on Wednesday, and all episodes have been available on news TV online. After 2pm on Sunday, the series is temporarily unavailable on the news TV streaming service. The series is about a disabled man in his 60s who moved to the Philippines ten years ago, but now wants to come home. “A cry for help leads Tore Strømøy to the Philippines, where disabled Bamsegut ran aground more than ten years ago,” writes news in the review. Many have wanted to support the man after the series was published, and one Spleis has collected over NOK 3.8 million. But this has now been put on hold. Criticism news has received criticism for, among other things, hanging out the public aid apparatus, not asking critical questions of the lawyers and not taking into account the man’s 15-year-old son. – He spins a story where the family is chased out of Norway against their will, by an emotionless and hostile “system”, wrote Aftenposten commentator Christina Pletten. She concludes that the series should never have been broadcast, and points to three possible violations of the Vær varsom poster. Strømøy has defended the project in a separate post in Aftenposten. news’s ethics editor Per Arne Kalbakk has also responded to the criticism. Lawyer to VG: – Bad experience in keeping things hidden On Sunday it emerged that the series has also omitted a judgment from 1991. The man was sentenced to eight months’ suspended prison in 1991 for lewd intercourse with six children aged 8 to 10 years. In the judgment, it appears that the man lacks an understanding of boundaries. “The defendant has an infantile reaction pattern, and the actions he is convicted of appear to be largely due to a lack of understanding of where the boundaries are. However, it is the court’s firm opinion that the winding up of the case is enough for the defendant to now realize the limits, and that as an individual deterrent the sentencing will have little significance in keeping the defendant away from similar cases in the future”. The man’s lawyer tells VG that Granfoss himself wanted this to be included. – Strømøy has told me that Granfoss himself wanted the verdict to come to light in the news series, says lawyer Leif Strøm to VG. On the phone from the Philippines, the 62-year-old confirms to Strøm on Sunday that he wants it to be known that he has been convicted of sexual crimes. – If he had asked me, I would have advised him to do the same, because I have very bad experience in keeping things hidden, says Strøm. Tore Strømøy at work in the Philippines. Photo: Kjetil Nesgård / news Moved after legal advice The man in his 60s moved to the Philippines with his wife and son in 2012. The reason was a report of concern from child protection. When the man received the letter, he called lawyer Erling Kjærmann, who had previously helped him in a compensation case. In the series, the lawyer says that he said the following to the man: “You can choose to stay in (the home municipality) and try to cooperate with the child welfare services. Then there is a danger that there will be a takeover of care. You can move to another municipality. But then there will probably be a new message of concern. You also have the option of moving abroad, for example, your wife is from the Philippines.” On Sunday, news tried to get in touch with the two lawyers involved without success. “The documentary series “Ingen elsker Bamsegut” is made by the program department of news Trøndelag. The news division works journalistically independently with the news coverage of the case”.
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