A group of 30-40 Nazis from the Nordic Resistance Movement demonstrated outside the Storting on Saturday afternoon. Later they moved from Karl Johans gate and up towards Pilestredet. On the way, they passed Tullinløkka just north of Karl Johan, where several families with children enjoyed themselves during the Cultural Saturday event. Several children had gathered to draw tulle loops on the asphalt. They were interrupted by the Nazis marching right over the drawings. Several families with children had gathered on Saturday for Cultural Saturday at Tullinløkka. Photo: ØYSTEIN AURLIEN – Something terrible thundered down the street. And then suddenly I saw masked men and heard lots of screaming. Then it became dramatic. That’s what Øystein Aurlien, who is one of the organizers from the Tullin collaboration, says. He says that several adults quickly had to take the children out of the street and up the stairs at the National Gallery. – This is scandalous. I think it is devastating, says Aurlien and continues: – I am for freedom of expression, but here they are scaring children. It’s just pathetic. 30-40 people are said to have moved from Karl Johans gate and up towards Pilestredet. Aurlien emphasizes that the children who were at the event were not very frightened, but that it was a stressful situation. – It ruined a lot of the event, he says. Refused to listen to the police At Pilestredet, the group was reportedly met by large police forces. There, they allegedly refused to follow the police’s instructions. – The group has refused to comply with the police’s orders, says operations manager Tor Gulbrandsen to news. He says several groups from the left also met, and that the police had to take physical action to separate them. – It was quite dramatic because we worked with a lot of resources to prevent confrontation between several dissenters, says Gulbrandsen. – For the time being, we have to use police service vehicles to transport them away. It takes some time, he continues. The picture shows the police arresting several people in Pilestredet in the center of Oslo. Photo: Filter Nyheter Shouted Nazi slogans Outside the Storting, the group is said to have shouted Nazi slogans, according to the editor of Filter Nyheter, Harald Klungtveit. – Some of the Nazis climbed Løvebakken. And held an appeal there, even though the police tried to expel them, he says. The Nazis must have been masked, says Klungtveit. He followed the protesters on foot. Filter Nyheter was early on the scene. From the Storting, the group is said to have moved up towards Pilestredet and Blitzhuset, according to Klungtveit. There they were stopped by the police. – It quickly became a scuffle with the police, when several of them were knocked to the ground and arrested, he says. Several people associated with the Nordic Resistance Movement are to be arrested in central Oslo. Photo: news 35 people arrested According to Tor Gulbrandsen in the police, the group should not have applied for permission in advance. – Part of the problem is that it was not reported nor applied for, he says. – They have received instructions from the police to end the marking and to leave the area and not to mark themselves any further. They have refused, and all are therefore brought in by the police, says operations manager Tor Gulbrandsen to NTB. At 16.37 the police shared the following message on Twitter: – We now have control over this situation in the city centre. 35 people have been arrested in the case and taken to prison. Large police forces moved to the Pilestredet on Saturday afternoon. Photo: Javad Parsa / NTB Several Swedes and Danes are said to have participated The Nordic Resistance Movement is a Nazi organization originating in Sweden. Later there have been branches in several Scandinavian countries, including Norway. According to Harald Klungtveit, most of the Nazis during the demonstration must have been Swedes. – Today there are very few active members in Norway, so they are dependent on getting Swedish and Danish members over to be able to demonstrate in that number here, he says. Klungtveit says that he does not recognize that groups from the left had turned up as counter-demonstrators, as the police describe. – This was unannounced, so there were probably no activists who knew this was going to happen, he says. news’s review of photos and video from the scene shows that several Norwegians also participated in the riots on the Pilestredet. news Brennpunkt has previously followed the organization to understand who they are and what they want to achieve.
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