{"id":130711,"date":"2025-05-09T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/killed-steinar-wangen-saw-himself-as-a-threat-to-tonsbergs-turn-association-news-vestfold-and-telemark-local-news-tv-and-radio\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:21:01","slug":"killed-steinar-wangen-saw-himself-as-a-threat-to-tonsbergs-turn-association-news-vestfold-and-telemark-local-news-tv-and-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/killed-steinar-wangen-saw-himself-as-a-threat-to-tonsbergs-turn-association-news-vestfold-and-telemark-local-news-tv-and-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Killed Steinar Wangen saw himself as a threat to T\u00f8nsberg’s Turn Association – news Vestfold and Telemark – Local News, TV and Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In one of the country’s oldest sports associations, murdered Steinar Wangen (53) has played handball on a team for players with special needs. – He created some life around him and was good at pending and baking, says sporting manager of T\u00f8nsberg’s Turn Association Monica Kittelsen to news. news meets Kittelsen and chairman Rasmus S\u00f8ndergaard Skov in T\u00f8nsberghallen. They describe Wangen as a person who was often in a good mood. But his behavior changed in the fall of 2024, according to the leaders. – He reacted much more strongly to trifles in the team and haunted things that had no root in reality. He started hanging out coaches in the club in social media, says Chairman Skov. Sports leader Monica Kittelsen and Chairman Rasmus S\u00f8ndergaard Skov in T\u00f8nsberg’s Turn Association. Photo: Fredrik Pedersen \/ news news has given Steinar Wangen the opportunity to respond to the claims from the handball club that appear in this case. He has not yet responded to our inquiry. The charges of murder last summer were sentenced to eight years in prison for suicide. A few months after the verdict fell, he must have killed a woman in Trollh\u00e4ttan, Sweden. Now he is charged with one murder and four cases of suicide call. He denies criminal charges, and believes that what he has done is not punishable either in Norway or Sweden, his defender Gaute Nilsen told news. Nilsen has also been submitted to the allegations that appear in this case. He writes in a text message to news that he cannot answer questions about this case on behalf of his client. Wangen grew up in Moss, but has lived in T\u00f8nsberg in recent years. He was recently handed over from Sweden to Norway. That is why news Steinar Wangen news believes there is a legitimate information need in the case, which means that we identify Steinar Wangen with name and picture. news understands that this is a burden on Wangen, but believes that the nature of the case and his repeated serious, criminal acts make it right to identify him. news has also spoken to Wangen himself, held him the allegations against him and observed how he appears in court. Here is our reason for identification: He was convicted of murder in 1987. Although this is so far back in time that it is less important for the assessment today, it is part of the picture. In 2024, Wangen was sentenced to eight years in prison, where three years were made unconditional, for suicide. He explained in court that he helped the older woman take his own life as part of the struggle for legalization of active euthanasia. “For the court, it seems that the case took over for Wangen, and that he felt entitled to perform the actions he did. With that, he was also in danger of exploiting people in very vulnerable situations, \u201dit says in the judgment against him. While Wangen was waiting for the appeal in this case to come up with the Court of Appeal, he is charged with traveling to Sweden to help a new woman take her own life. Swedish police arrested Wangen and charged him with murder. He is also charged with four cases where he should have encouraged others to take his own life. He admitted the action in Sweden to TV 2 in the documentary series “Behind the facade”, where he also participated by being interviewed. Wangen has now been transferred to Norway, and Norwegian police take over the investigation of the murder case. So there are repeated and serious actions. As the court writes in the judgment, there is also a danger that he exploits people in very vulnerable situations. Both are important moments when news chooses to identify Wangen. He has also sought publicity himself by frequently writing a letter of reading, being a program manager in TV broadcasts and holding positions in voluntary organizations. He has also been an active voice in the debate on active euthanasia in various forums, and received a prize of the association the right to a worthy death for this work. It was later withdrawn. When he was convicted of murder in 1987, the court -appointed experts believed that Wangen was slightly mentally retarded. This is a diagnosis he has had both before and after the murder judgment. When he was convicted again in 2024, the experts believed that Wangen had an IQ which was significantly lower than the average, but still far from mental retardation. The court found that he was criminally accountable. After that, he has been assessed by forensic psychiatrists in Sweden, who came to the same conclusion. This also weighs news’s \u200b\u200bassessment of identifying him. Steinar Wangen denies criminal charges for the murder charge, but we know little about what he otherwise explained to the police. It is therefore important for news to get his views on the further coverage of the case. Looked at himself as a threat the verdict from last year, Skov in T\u00f8nsberg’s Turn Association learned about by Wangen himself, in an email. There he also made a clip from a newspaper article about a murder in the 80s when Wangen was 15 years old, killing a 7-year-old girl. – I asked him directly if he looked at himself as a threat to the players on the team. He confirmed that and said yes to me, says Skov. Here Steinar Wangen is in court after the murder in 1986, along with defender Olav Hestenes. The picture was sent in news Dagsrevyen 3 April 1987. Photo: news news has seen the e-mail exchange where Wangen writes that he is a threat to the team. Here’s one of the emails: to your question: Do you think the judgments you have pose a risk to the group when playing with them? The answer is yes and it has shown NN, but not taken it seriously. Sincerely, Steinar Wangen Klubben decided to exclude him from matches and training. They also denied him access to the fitness hall. In addition, they contacted the police, but were told that there was nothing they could do, according to the club. They also sought help from a doctor, county doctor, state manager and sports, explains sporting manager Monica Kittelsen. Scared players on November 27 Last year, Wangen was lured to Nordby Hotel in Sweden and tricked in a trap of TV 2’s documentary series “Norway behind the facade”. Wangen thought he would kill a sick woman. Instead, he was arrested by Swedish police. Several of the players were shocked when they watched the series. – They were afraid that he would do something now in hindsight, says Skov. The club management was in the wild about how to handle the situation, but called in several of the players for a meeting. Sports leader Monica Kittelsen and Chairman Rasmus S\u00f8ndergaard Skov in the T\u00f8nsberg Turn Association were concerned. Photo: Fredrik Pedersen \/ NRKSportlig leader Monica Kittelsen and Chairman Rasmus S\u00f8ndergaard Skov in the T\u00f8nsberg Turn Association were concerned. Photo: Fredrik Pedersen \/ news The club wanted T\u00f8nsberg municipality’s crisis team to attend the meeting, but was told that they could not stand in such a short time. – I think it is bad that they are unable to pull around in such a special case, says Kittelsen. Do not recognize the municipal manager for mastery and health in T\u00f8nsberg, Frode Hestnes, confirms that the municipality was contacted by the club. He does not recognize their description of the case. – We feel that we have met them as far as we have done at very short notice, says Hestnes. Municipal Manager for Mastery and Health in T\u00f8nsberg Municipality, Frode Hestnes. Photo: Per H\u00e5kon Solberg \/ news He says that the municipality could pose with people the same evening, but not to the time the club wanted. “These types of situations would not usually have led us to send out the psychosocial crisis team, but we have other professionals who are better suited to handle user groups with a complex challenge picture and who could pose the same evening,” says Hestnes. Talked to the police:-Ticking bomb for the last two weeks before Wangen was arrested last fall, he bombarded Skov with emails. The chairman says that he received three to four emails every day at all hours of the day. There Wangen threatened, among other things, to sue the club. Parts of the correspondence shared Wangen in social media. In the days before Wangen was arrested and imprisoned, the club was concerned about his behavior. They tried to get help from the police. Kittelsen says that was told to call again if he appeared in the hall and was threatening. He didn’t. At the end of November, Wangen was arrested outside Nordby Hotel in Str\u00f6mstad in Sweden. Now he is in Norwegian custody, charged with murder. Must consider whether it is relevant news has been in contact with the South East Police District, of which T\u00f8nsberg is a part. They say that all questions about the case must be addressed to the Eastern Police District, since they are investigating the ongoing criminal case against Wangen. Police Attorney in the Eastern Police District Anne L\u00f8ken has forwarded news’s \u200b\u200bquestions to State Attorney Peter Andre Johansen at the Oslo Attorney General. State Attorney Johansen writes in an e-mail to news that the handball club’s contact with the South East police district is unknown to him. He further writes that they will contact the South East police district to clarify whether they have information that may be relevant to the ongoing investigation. Norwegian police are now going through the investigative documents from the police in Sweden, where the case against Wangen was considered ready to be sent to court. – Then we will consider whether new investigative steps are needed in the case, Johansen says. Published 09.05.2025, at. 15.05
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