news has seen two videos which are supposed to show what the police believe is the abduction of a man on Sunday evening. These have been published and shared on social media. – The police are aware that a video has been published on social media showing parts of the incident. The police are of the opinion that the video is genuine, police attorney Kine Reierth writes in an e-mail to news. Police attorney Kine Reierth confirms that the police have secured video evidence. Photo: John Inge Johansen / news It was on Sunday evening at 18.42 that the police in Nordland received a report that a person was missing from a private address in Vesterålen. Later that evening, the missing person was accounted for. At the same time, information emerged that the person had been subjected to violence and deprivation of liberty. The police then went into action and arrested a man in his 30s with ties to Vesterålen. Two more people were later arrested. Two of the accused have now been remanded in custody for two and three weeks respectively. Both remand prisoners have been placed in total isolation and banned from letters and visits for the first two weeks of their imprisonment. The last accused was released on Tuesday. – The case has been a high priority in recent days and a number of technical and tactical investigative steps have been carried out. There are still several witness interviews, as well as a review of seized items, says police attorney Kine Reierth to news. In connection with the abduction, two videos were published on social media to show the incident. A crime technician is carrying out investigations at a private address in Vesterålen after a person was reported missing, and then found on Sunday. Photo: Jens Andre M. Birkeland Video of man with covered head and strips The one video shows a man being driven away in a car with his head covered and with strips around his hands. news has also seen another video which shows a man being scolded for wearing strips around his hands. Police attorney Kine Reierth confirms to news that the police have secured the latter video. They believe it is real and that there are more videos. – The video is part of the collected evidence, and will be important for the overall assessment of the case. Lawyer Finn Ove Smith represents one of the accused. He attended a detention meeting on Tuesday. – My client does not believe that he has not done anything criminal, says Smith. He will not comment on the videos that have been circulating on social media. Order excluding the public The police have also asked the court to exempt the detention orders from the public. Therefore, both defenders in the case are tight-lipped. – The detention orders are exempt from public disclosure as they contain information that could influence the testimony of any witnesses and thus damage the investigation, explains Reierth. Lawyer Thea Ekran Gustavsen represents the man who was arrested on Monday. Nor will she comment on the information that there will be videos of the sequence of events. – What I can say is that my client has been detained for two weeks, Gustavsen confirms to news.
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The police have secured a video on social media which is supposed to show an abduction in Vesterålen – news Nordland
