The car homicide suspect (30) has previously been convicted of violence and train sabotage – news Trøndelag

It was in 2016 that, according to a judgment from the Inntrøndelag district court, the man left manhole covers, scrap metal and a large stone on the train line near Steinkjer. The man was charged with attempting to cause a serious railway accident, but was not convicted of this. Among other things, he was convicted of sabotage and damage to the railway. Bane Nor stated in court that it was only a warning system that prevented a serious accident when a freight train came running towards the objects the man had placed on the tracks. At the time, the man pleaded guilty in court to a number of matters, but believed that he had no plan to cause an accident. news has read the verdict. There it emerges that the court believed him on this and wrote that he had a “lack of consequence thinking”. Therefore, he was given the benefit of the doubt when they had to assess whether he had deliberately done the act to cause an accident. The police stated at a press conference on Sunday that the man is known to the police from before. Now the 30-year-old from Steinkjer is charged with negligent homicide after running into several people in the city center on the night of Easter Sunday. A man in his 20s died from the injuries he sustained from the collision. According to what news has been informed, local police have known the man from before, and they have routinely informed the PST about him. The man was sentenced by the court in 2018 to 1.5 years in prison for the damage to the railway and a number of other matters. Made serious threats with reference to Breivik In 2017, before the case of the railway sabotage came up for trial, the man committed a number of new serious acts. Among other things, he made several serious threats both against individuals and the population. According to the verdict from Inntrøndelag district court, the man allegedly threatened to kill many people, among other things. In several messages sent to acquaintances in 2017, he mentioned how he wanted to take more lives with a weapon than Anders Behring Breivik: “Hope Breivik becomes a little boy in relationships,” the man wrote, according to a copy of the messages that the police secured. – He has threatened with macabre, terrorist-like acts, and has created horror, wrote the court in its assessment of the threats. The District Court also considered that the threats were serious and were “close to section 134 of the Criminal Code on terrorist threats”. The man also threatened a Nav advisor. In court, the man is said to have explained that he made the serious threats in order to get his case in court more quickly. This must have been linked to the fact that the media referred to the serious charge of having attempted to cause a serious train accident. The man is said to have reacted strongly to this and wanted to be served for the offense quickly. It was a dramatic night on Sunday in Steinkjer. In the city center a van had run over people. One person was seriously injured and later died from his injuries. Photo: Privat / NTB Also convicted of violence The man was also convicted of several cases of violence at the time. Among other things, the man had used violence against a woman. He had also used violence against public officials. In the time after the incident on the railway track, he was also caught for drink-driving. The man had driven drunk both in a boat and on an ATV. According to the verdict, the man was disqualified from driving motorized vehicles in 2018. Investigations carried out by news show that the man owns several vehicles. The car that was involved in the fatal collision in the center of Steinkjer on the night of Easter Sunday is one of the cars registered to the man. It was this van that was involved in the collision in the center of Steinkjer. The car, which is owned by a 30-year-old man from the city, was later found in a ditch some distance outside the settlement. Photo: Elfi Leinan



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