On Thursday, news was able to tell about a coordinated PST action, which targeted young people with extreme right-wing views. The teenagers who were visited by civilian PST employees are said to have, among other things, called for terror and the murder of homosexuals. On the same day that PST campaigned, the burning of a pride flag was streamed on the app TikTok. Many thousands of people watched the live video, which lasted over an hour. Now three people have status as suspects in the case. news has seen footage of the ignition. The person behind the account, a man in his early 20s from the interior, asked along the way for money for more rainbow flags. – Those flags are damn expensive, so we have to get more span here. You need to shake your head if you want more gay flag burning. news has tried to get a comment from the man who filmed the burning, but has not succeeded. – Nausea news has spoken to a woman who herself sat and watched the stream on Wednesday evening. The woman is queer and lives with her partner and child. She therefore wishes to remain anonymous. – I felt quite nauseous, she says to news. The woman and her roommate were in Oslo on 25 June 2022. The insecurity after the attack is still with them, she says. Then it hurts to watch such videos. – I watched the stream for about an hour. There were so many likes and people sent monetary gifts and tokens to show their support. The live broadcast received over 800,000 likes. It is possible for one user to like multiple times. Do you fly the flag for Pride? The rainbow waves outside my home. Wants to, but doesn’t want to be visible in public. Have no desire to fly the flag. Show result In the Innlandet police district, there were also colleagues who caught wind of the arson on TikTok, says police attorney Julie Dalsveen. – That led to the police moving out. They quickly identified where it was and followed the smoke on the road. The flag was still burning when the police arrived at the scene, she tells news. A criminal case has been opened into the matter and a total of three people have been reported. – We have written a report, secured photos and will now continue to work on the case. As of now, they are suspected of breaching the Fire and Explosion Act. No decision has been taken as to whether more cases should be opened on the same matter, informs Dalsveen. The police did not question the suspects on Friday afternoon. Radicalization to both right-wing extremism and Islamism is a growing threat in Norway, according to PST’s national threat assessment. Increasingly, children end up in the spotlight of PST for radicalisation. Expect more threats PST says they are familiar with the TikTok stream, and have received tips from the public. – For our part, this illustrates the threat to queers that we are keen to talk about now before pride, says Siv Sørensen. She is a strategic analyst in the counter-terrorism field in PST. Sørensen says queerness became a target for higher extremism and extreme Islamists after the terrorist attack on 25 June 2022. – We expect more and more threats and incitement and harassment against queer people in the run-up to the Pride season. It is something we experience every year. – The right to live and be Leader in Free Oslo and Viken Marianne Gulli says they see flag burning as very serious. – There is a great and important need for the police and the security authorities to follow up on what may be threats or hatred towards queers. Recently, pride flags have been burned, stolen and soiled. In Ålesund, the flag only hung up for a few hours before it was found soiled on the ground. The police are investigating the case. Marianne Gulli Fri says pride flag burning affects queers in everyday life. Photo: Trond A. Stenersen / news Gulli says this type of action affects queer people’s everyday life regardless of whether the police consider it a hate crime or not. – The pride flag represents something as important as the right to live and be, regardless of gender identity, gender expression or who you fall in love with. Published 14/06/2024, at 19.00 Updated 14.06.2024, at 19.17
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Pride flags lit on the same day as PST campaigned against hate speech – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
