The video recording is 24 minutes long and was made by Henrik Ingebrigtsen during a training camp in St. Moritz in Switzerland in 2019. The recording shows Jakob Ingebrigtsen and his father. The audio recordings are from two phone calls between Henrik Ingebrigtsen and his parents at the end of January 2022. The phone calls, which together lasted almost two hours, were about why the runner brothers had decided at this time to end their collaboration with their father as their coach. The conversations took place around three weeks after an episode occurred between Gjert Ingebrigtsen and a family member. This episode forms one of the charges against him for abuse in close relationships. The public prosecutor will not comment on Birgitte Budal Løvlund, public prosecutor in Rogaland, will not answer why the prosecution wants to play exactly these clips during the trial. – We do not comment in the media on how we assess the case’s evidence. Our argument related to the value of the individual evidence, or the significance of the evidence, is presented to the court. Sør-Rogaland district court is working to ensure that the criminal case against Gjert Ingebrigtsen will be settled in the first half of next year. Birgitte Budal Løvlund will not be the prosecutor herself during the trial, but leaves that task to Acting State Attorney Angjerd Kvernenes. – Contradiction between TV and explanations The lawyers Heidi Reisvang and John Christian Elden, who represent the accused Gjert Ingebrigtsen, believe that the TV series “Team Ingebrigtsen” is interesting in its entirety because it shows how the interaction and relationships in the Ingebrigtsen family have actually been. Sør-Rogaland district court decided on Monday that the police must retrieve the TV series as part of the investigation. Lawyers John Christian Elden and Heidi Reisvang represent Gjert Ingebrigtsen. Photo: Caroline Utti / news – The series shows a family’s everyday life, not only without threats and violence, but it is also the defense’s view that several sequences contradict the aggrieved parties’ explanations that something criminal must have happened. – In what way? – We will have to come back to that during the trial, Reisvang replies. Don’t know how much is being asked to be played She says that the defenders want to play “some” sequences from the series during the trial, but how much do they have to come back to. The defenders will demand to have some sequences from the TV series “Team Ingebrigtsen” played during the trial next year. Photo: news The defense will also bring witnesses from the production companies that worked closely with the family over several years. One of these is also listed on the prosecution’s evidence statement. For the defenders, it will be important to hear their impressions of the family and the relationship between Gjert Ingebrigtsen and the children, as well as the creation of the series and the framework around it. Until 2016, Skofteland Film produced the series from news, then Zacapa Film took over. The series was shown on news from 2016 to 2021. – Unproblematic release Jørgen Heid, news’s director of strategy and media, has so far not heard from the police regarding the release of the depublished TV series. “Since the series was openly available for several years, news does not consider it problematic to hand over the published episodes if the police ask”, he writes in an e-mail to several media on Tuesday, also to news. Timeline in the case against Gjert Ingebrigtsen: These are the main points in the case in which the athletics coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen is accused of abuse in close relationships: 19 October 2023: In a VG chronicle, Henrik, Filip and Jakob Ingebrigtsen claim that the father used violence and threats as part of upbringing. Gjert Ingebrigtsen refutes the claims. 26 October: The police open an investigation into Gjert Ingebrigtsen on the basis of the allegations in the aforementioned chronicle. On the same day, it becomes clear that the athletics coach has been reported by a family member. 29 April 2024: Gjert Ingebrigtsens is prosecuted for violating section 282 of the Criminal Code, which applies to abuse in close relationships, against one of the victims in the case. At the same time, the police drop six other cases. Five cases were dismissed on the basis of the evidence, while one was dismissed due to time-barredness. 31 May: Four of the cases are appealed, and the state attorney decides that one of them, in which Jakob Ingebrigtsen is a party, should be investigated further. Afterwards, Jakob Ingebrigtsen has been in new police interviews. 23 October: The police state that they have finished their investigation into the case and have sent the evidence to the public prosecutor. The case will come before the court in 2025 at the earliest. 29 November: Gjert Ingebrigtsen is prosecuted for mistreating Jakob. Now he is accused of abusing two of his children. Gjert Ingebrigtsen has always denied criminal guilt. Public assistance lawyer Mette Yvonne Larsen, who represents five of the children, told news on Monday that it is all right that the series is used in the case. – The series does not show the events mentioned in the indictment, said the defense lawyer. Published 03.12.2024, at 17.43
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The prosecution will record private telephone conversations in the Ingebrigtsen case – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio
