Several schools in the country have found threats of school shooting written on toilets walls lately. At a secondary school in Fredrikstad, this text was discovered in a toilet Monday: School shooting 12.03. Also at secondary schools and upper secondary schools in Bergen, Oslo, Horten, Hokksund, Nannestad, Larvik and Skien, similar threats have been experienced in March this year. “We have no information or evidence that there is a real content in that a school shooting will take place,” operations manager Melissa Krag in the Eastern Police District told news on Tuesday. Last week, the same message was written on the toilet wall at a secondary school in Nannestad. – We take the situation seriously. This is a serious message to write on the wall of a school, says Mayor Christian Bendz in a press release. It was Drammens Tidende who first wrote about the case. Equal messages at many schools in a message to parents at a secondary school in Bergen, the school service writes that they believe the events are about vandalism and not a threat. Nevertheless, they state that the case will be investigated further. – We wish some students were mature enough to come and tell what they may know about this. Ronny Øvrebotten, service manager in Bergen Sør, says that you can never be quite sure that these are empty threats. Ronny Andre Øvrebotten, service manager in Bergen Sør. Photo: Private He points out that the police must take into account security and consequences at the same time. – We have a dialogue with the school if they have students who are capable of writing this, or whether they have students who are capable of performing the action. It is the schools that know the students best, says Øvrebotten. The police inspector says there are indications that this is a trend that has spread on Tiktok. -We perceive that it is a Tiktok thing, says Øvrebotten. – This creates fear and uncertainty. It is seen that school shooting is happening in other countries, and although PST assesses the likelihood of small here in Norway, it can never exclude it. Principal: – The severity is extreme medium garden secondary school in Larvik is also affected by a similar event. – It spreads a lot of fear and uncertainty when such a threat is written on a wall. We take this seriously, says Rector Gjermund Holt. He believes that good assessment of the situation is necessary. – It is important to balance it by not raising it too much, says the principal. The student group at the school is divided, according to the headmaster of Larvik. Some laugh at the threat and point out that it is a TIKTOK trend, while some parents are afraid to send the children to school. Gjermund Holt states that they have talked to parents and students during Tuesday. – The severity of such a threat is extreme, so we will take it seriously and do our best to make it feel okay to be here both today and tomorrow, he says. A school in Skien also reports threats of school shooting, according to the local newspaper Varden. Ask parents to have a chat the Police Directorate informs news that they do not keep their own statistics on the number of threats to schools. “The police districts are responsible for following up and assessing relevant threats within their own area of responsibility,” says acting head of section Hans Petter Strande in the POD. Both the schools and the police in the east and west strongly encourage parents to have a chat with the youth. – You do not have to throw such trends. Although the content is empty, they are absolutely the subject of creating fear, says the operations manager in the Eastern Police District, Melissa Krag. The police in the east do not implement operational measures in Fredrikstad, but they have linked to preventive units that are in dialogue with the school. Øvrebotten highlights section 266 of the Penal Code on reckless behavior, which states that one can be fined and imprisoned up to two years. – The youth who does this as a joke probably does not understand the consequences it can have if you are taken for this. Published 11.03.2025, at. 12.31 Updated 11.03.2025, at. 14.33
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