The case in summary A woman in her 40s attacked staff at the Saupstad health center in Trondheim with a knife and razor blade on 23 November this year. She had previously been released from custody after starting a fire at Nav Falkenborg in Trondheim. The woman denies criminal liability and claims that she was attacked by the staff at the health centre. She has previously been a threat to public servants and has exercised violence against a public servant. Her defense attorney believes that she should rather have been admitted to psychiatry. The woman is now in prison until 22 December. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. – She should rather have been admitted to psychiatry and received help there, says Kolbjørn Lium to news. He is the defender of a woman in her 40s, who visited Saupstad health center in Trondheim last week. Here she allegedly used a knife and a razor blade against two employees. One of them was stabbed in the thigh with a knife. The other was cut on the neck and hands with a razor blade. This came out during the detention meeting. The woman was arrested shortly after what happened, but did not want to explain herself to the police. She only told her story during the prison meeting on Saturday. She said that she had visited the health center because she wanted to talk to staff in child protection about the case. And that it was the employees at the health center who had attacked her with a “travel bag”. The woman denies criminal liability. Several times during the prison meeting she became very upset and angry when she brought up the conflict with the child welfare services. And this was not the first time a woman has been a danger to humans. Start a fire In May, a woman and her husband entered the reception at Nav Falkenborg in Trondheim. They set fire to two sofas in the audience area with flammable liquid. They then ran away from the city. Due to information that the couple had bought lighter fluid after this, the police feared more arson. Three hours later they were arrested and charged with serious damage. The two were detained for two weeks. In the court decision, it is stated, among other things, that they must have threatened to “burn down the hospital”. Photo: Morten Andersen / news The child protection case was also mentioned then: “The information in the case indicates that the accused and his wife are in an active period of increasingly aggressive behavior towards public authorities on the basis of the child protection case. Based on the information in the case, the explanation for the accused and the lack of recognition or understanding of the seriousness of the incident at Nav Falkenborg, the court believes it is imminent that the accused will continue to resort to such means in order to be heard and seen”. The court can decide that a person can be committed to a psychiatric institution instead of being held in custody. The condition must be that the accused then has “a strongly deviant state of mind”, according to section 188 of the Criminal Procedure Act. The decision must also be based on “an unambiguous expert opinion”. Neither the District Court nor the Frostating Court of Appeal found this to be the case. It was very difficult for the psychiatrist who met the woman in prison to examine her state of mind. This is clear from the court decision from the Court of Appeal on 31 May. She must have got up, and the conversation was interrupted after a few minutes. Also in September, the woman allegedly used violence against a public servant. The defender: Prison is not the right place Kolbjørn Lium, the woman’s defender, does not think that prison is the right place for her. In the court decisions from both criminal cases, the court assumes that she will receive help in prison, and after she was released from custody in June. Lium tells news that he is not aware that the woman has received any help. Kolbjørn Lium believes that prison is not the right place for the woman he defends. Photo: Eivind Aabakken / news She is now in prison until 22 December. Lium states that the accused has asked to think about it before it is decided whether the imprisonment will be appealed to the Court of Appeal. After the two serious incidents, two forensic psychiatric experts have now been appointed. They will present their assessments in a future trial against the woman. The investigation was in its final phase. news has asked several questions to the police about what help the woman has received after her release in June and whether it was right to set her free. – What follow-up has the woman received from the healthcare system after she was released from custody on 9 June? – The question must be addressed to the health care system, answers the head of the prosecution, Lars Lundlie. – The conditions for placing her in an institution should also be “continuously assessed” according to the court decision. What has happened to this assessment? – Out of consideration for the duty of confidentiality, the police cannot comment on this, beyond the fact that assessments have been made. – The incident at Saupstad could have had a much more serious outcome. Could the police and emergency services be closer and prevent the woman from putting others in danger again? – The police take the incident in Saupstad very seriously. The woman was detained for two weeks in May after the incident at Nav Falkenborg, and was then required to report to the police for a period. The woman has also been given several visiting bans that apply to both individuals and public institutions. Beyond that, it is too early to say anything about the specific case. – On a general basis, the police and the prosecution must always balance interventions and the use of force according to the principle of proportionality in the Police Act. He points out that the woman has been detained for four weeks, and that the police will make a new assessment when the detention period comes to an end. – Now the Falkenborg case will be part of the new criminal case about Saupstad. But when was it predicted that there would have been a prosecution if the new case had not happened? – We cannot say anything for sure about that, other than that the investigation was in its final phase.
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Was allowed to go free after Nav-fire and threats – then she attacked staff with a knife and razor blade
