En Norvège, deux morts et plusieurs blessés après des tirs à Oslo ; la police enquête sur « un acte terroriste »

LE MONDE : Une fusillade s’est produite près d’un club gay du centre-ville dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi. L’individu soupçonné d’être l’auteur des tirs a été arrêté, a fait savoir la police.

La police sécurise la scène d’une fusillade dans le centre-ville d’Oslo, le 25 juin 2022. JAVAD PARSA / AFP
La police norvégienne a annoncé, samedi 25 juin, traiter comme « un acte terroriste islamiste » la fusillade perpétrée dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi devant des bars du centre d’Oslo, qui a fait deux morts et au moins 21 blessés, dont dix graves. Le niveau de menace terroriste sur le sol norvégien a été relevé de « modéré » à « extraordinaire » – le niveau maximal – par les services de renseignement.

Un suspect a été arrêté après les tirs qui se sont produits aux alentours de 1 heure à l’extérieur de deux bars, dont un club gay, en plein centre d’Oslo. La police a précisé que deux armes avaient été saisies. « Tout indique maintenant qu’il y avait seulement une personne qui a commis ce geste », a déclaré un responsable de la police, Tore Barstad, lors d’un point de presse, même si l’enquête devra faire la lumière sur d’éventuelles complicités en amont. Les effectifs ont été renforcés dans la capitale pour faire face à d’autres incidents, a-t-il ajouté. » | Par Anne-Françoise Hivert (Malmö (Suède), correspondante régionale) (avec AFP) | vendredi 24 juin 2022

Ein Anschlag auf die queere Szene?: Zwei Menschen werden am Vorabend der Pride-Parade in einem Osloer Ausgehviertel erschossen, mindestens 21 werden verletzt. Ein Verdächtiger ist in Gewahrsam. Die Polizei geht von einer islamistischen Terrortat aus. »

La Norvège tentée par un virage à gauche

De gauche à droite: Erna Solberg (parti conservateur), Jonas Gahr Store (parti travailliste) et Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (parti du centre), candidats au poste de premier ministre de Norvège, lors d’un débat, le 9 août, à Oslo. GWLADYS FOUCHE/REUTERS
LE FIGARO : Les travaillistes sont les favoris du scrutin de ce lundi, mais ils risquent de dépendre d’autres partis de gauche, qui demandent un arrêt à court terme de la production pétrolière dans le pays.

Oslo
À Oslo, entre l’opéra qui trône au fond du fjord et la toute nouvelle bibliothèque, cela fait plusieurs semaines que les plus de 18 ans font la queue devant une série de préfabriqués. Non pas pour se faire vacciner… mais pour voter. Cette année, plus d’un tiers des Norvégiens ont accompli leur devoir civique avant ce lundi, jour de vote. Sur Karl-Johans Gate, une allée boisée près du Parlement, les stands des partis politiques accueillent depuis la même période les passants, les potentiels électeurs, comme sur toutes les places de toutes les communes du pays.«On sent qu’il y a une envie de renouveau, une envie de passer à autre chose», constate Franck Orban, professeur de sciences politiques au Collège universitaire d’Ostfold.

Car tous les sondages convergent: le royaume nordique ne devrait pas accorder de troisième mandat à la conservatrice Erna Solberg, qui a déjà battu le record de longévité de la droite au pouvoir, et semble se diriger vers l’alternance au profit de son rival travailliste Jonas Gahr Store. «Les inégalités ont augmenté depuis huit ans, ajoute Franck Orban, et cela s’est encore plus vu après la crise du Covid», bien que cette dernière ait été particulièrement bien négociée par les autorités avec à peine plus de 800 morts pour 5 millions d’habitants. » | Par Frédéric Faux | dimanche 12 septembre 2021

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Former Nobel Official: Obama Prize Failed to Achieve Goals

President Obama receiving his prize in 2009

YNET NEWS: Breaking with official tradition, the former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize says Obama failed to live up to the panel's expectations.

In a break with Nobel tradition, the former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee says the 2009 award to President Barack Obama failed to live up to the panel's expectations.

Geir Lundestad writes in a book released on Thursday that the committee had expected the prize to deliver a boost to Obama. Instead the award was met with fierce criticism in the US, where many argued Obama had not been president long enough to have an impact worthy of the Nobel.

"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," Lundestad wrote in excerpts of the book read by The Associated Press. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for." » | AP | Friday, September 19, 2015

Hate-preacher Anjem Choudary’s Oslo Ally Calls Homosexuality ‘A Nasty, Cruel Disease’

BREITBART.COM: A Norwegian Islamist extremist with links to Anjem Choudary, the London-based hate preacher who wants to establish an Islamic state in Britain, has launched a Facebook campaign against the Europride festival in Oslo this week.

The Local reports that Ubaydullah Hussain was linked earlier this year with Egzon Avdyli, a 25-year-old from Oslo who was reported killed fighting in Syria with jihadist forces.

Following reports of Avdyli’s death, Hussain declared him a martyr in a Facebook post. Included in the post was a picture of Avdyli and Hussain standing on each side of Choudary. » | M. E. Synon | Tuesday, June 27, 2014

Exclusive: Norwegian Govt. Could Request Extradition of UK Islamist Anjem Choudary »

Deutschlands Außenpolitik: Gauck fordert größere Bereitschaft zu Militäreinsätzen

Gauck in Oslo: "Auf allen Ebenen ein Ja zu einem aktiven Deutschland"

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Joachim Gauck bekräftigt seine Forderung, Deutschland solle international mehr Verantwortung übernehmen. Im Kampf für Menschenrechte sei es manchmal erforderlich, "auch zu den Waffen zu greifen", sagte der Bundespräsident in Norwegen.

Berlin - Deutschland sollte nach Ansicht von Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck nicht pauschal die Beteiligung an Militäreinsätzen ausschließen. Zu einer aktiven Politik zur Konfliktlösung gehöre es auch, "den Einsatz militärischer Mittel als letztes Mittel nicht von vornherein zu verwerfen", sagte Gauck zum Abschluss seines Norwegen-Besuchs in einem Interview mit Deutschlandradio Kultur. » | dab/dpa/AFP | Samstag, 14. Juni 2014

Les populistes accèdent au pouvoir en Norvège

Erna Solberg

TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Pour la première fois le Parti du progrès, qui prône une ligne dure sur l'immigration et une baisse des impôts, fait partie du gouvernement norvégien.

Un nouveau gouvernement de droite est entré en fonction mercredi en Norvège. Pour la première fois, des populistes du Parti du progrès, partisans d'une ligne dure sur l'immigration et de baisses d'impôts massives, participent.

Issue de la droite victorieuse aux législatives du 9 septembre, l'équipe de la conservatrice Erna Solberg compte sept ministres issus du parti du Progrès (FrP) aux côtés de 11 conservateurs. «J'estime que c'est un gouvernement bon et compétent», a déclaré Mme Solberg, 52 ans, en dévoilant sa composition. » | ats/Newsnet | mercredi 16 octobre 2013

Terrorfurcht in Norwegen: Mann droht mit Anschlag auf Parlament in Oslo
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Die Polizei riegelte Oslos Zentrum zeitweise weitgehend ab: Ein Mann hat damit gedroht, das Parlament in der norwegischen Hauptstadt zu sprengen. Sicherheitskräfte nahmen einen Verdächtigen fest, mussten ihn kurz darauf aber wieder freilassen.

Oslo - Rund eineinhalb Jahre nach den Anschlägen des Anders Behring Breivik hat eine Bombendrohung die Bürger Oslos in der Nacht zum Mittwoch erneut in Angst versetzt. Dem Polizeichef der norwegischen Hauptstadt, Johan Fredriksen, zufolge sei die "nicht spezifizierte Drohung" durch einen Buspassagier ausgesprochen worden. Die Angaben des Busfahrers habe man als ernstzunehmend eingestuft. » | fdi/dpa | Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2013

Islamic Cleric in Norway Convicted of Web Threats
BOSTON.COM: OSLO, Norway (AP) — An Iraqi-born Islamist cleric has been given a one-year prison sentence for making death threats against Norwegian politicians, influencing witnesses and inciting terror.

The Oslo District Court convicted Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, also known as Mullah Krekar, on Wednesday of posting online threats during an earlier trial, including encouraging the killings or kidnappings of Norwegians. » | AP | Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Breivik Will Not Appeal Sentence, Sorry He Did Not Kill More
Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik has been declared sane and jailed for 21 years for murdering 77 people in July last year. He also used the sentencing as a chance to express regret that he didn't kill more people that day. Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan reports from Oslo.

Anders Behring Breivik's 21-year Jail Term Closes Norway's Darkest Chapter

THE GUARDIAN: Calls for debate on multiculturalism as far right extremist is sentenced for killing 77 in twin attacks on Utøya island and Oslo

The darkest chapter in Norway's recent history came to a close, as judges delivered a sentence that is likely to see Anders Behring Breivik spend the rest of his life in prison, before they read out harrowing accounts of the gun and bomb attacks he perpetrated last year.

An Oslo court found that Breivik, whose twin assaults killed 77 people, was sane – the verdict that he and most Norwegians had wanted.

The conclusion of Norway's most high-profile judicial case for decades provoked immediate calls for the country to engage in a more rounded and open debate on multiculturalism.

Survivors and relatives welcomed the court's decision, saying they were now able to move on with their lives, 13 months after Breivik detonated a bomb in Oslo and embarked on a shooting rampage on Utøya island. More than half of those shot were teenagers.

The 33-year-old, who had earlier admitted the attacks that traumatised the peaceful country, smirked as the court's verdict was delivered. He was given the maximum sentence of 21 years, but with a "preventive detention" clause that means his time in jail can be extended as long as he is deemed a threat to society. It is unlikely he will ever be released.

In a final parting shot, clearly designed to offend, Breivik used his chance to address the court by apologising to "militant nationalists" across Europe, apparently for not killing more people during his two attacks. » | Mark Townsend in Oslo | Friday, August 24, 2012

Norway Remembers Victims of Massacre One Year On
In Norway, memorial services have been taking place to commemorate the victims of last year's massacre. Eight people were killed by a bomb blast at government headquarters there, and a further 69 were shot dead at a youth camp on Utoeya Island. From Oslo Barnaby Philips reports.

Anders Behring Breivik's Defence Calls for Lenient Sentence
On the last day of the trial against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, his defence council asks the court to declare Breivik criminally accountable allowing him to take responsibility for his actions with a lenient sentence. Speaking outside the court, the leader of the Norwegian Labour party's youth wing, Eskil Pedersen – himself a survivor of the Utøya massacre – says it is obvious that Breivik is insane

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Anders Behring Breivik: History Will Exonerate Me
THE GUARDIAN: Victims' relatives walk out as trial ends with killer demanding to be set free and asking court to reject insanity claim

The trial of Anders Behring Breivik has ended with the confessed mass killer demanding to be set free and vowing that history would exonerate him for a bomb and gun rampage that killed 77 people.

As the self-styled anti-Muslim militant spoke for the last time in the 10-week proceedings, around 30 relatives of his victims walked out of the courtroom as he spoke.

In a rambling statement, Breivik lashed out at everything he perceived to be wrong with the world, from non-ethnic Norwegians representing the country in the Eurovision song contest to the sexually liberated lifestyle of the characters in the American TV show Sex and the City.

He also claimed fellow rightwing extremists were behind a small amount of explosives found outside a Swedish nuclear plant this week. The Swedish police spokesman Tommy Nyman had no comment, adding "especially not if he says it".

While some of Breivik's comments prompted laughter in the Oslo court, gravity returned when he reiterated his motive for bombing a government building in Oslo, killing eight, and hunting down teenagers at the Labour party's youth camp on Utøya island. Sixty-nine people died and dozens more were injured in one of the worst peacetime shooting massacres by a single gunman.

"History shows that you have to commit a small barbarism to prevent a bigger barbarism," the 33-year-old Norwegian said.

"The attacks on July 22 were preventive attacks to defend the indigenous Norwegian people," he said. "I therefore demand to be acquitted."

Breivik claims the governing Labour party has betrayed the country by accepting Muslim immigrants and must be stopped before turning Norway into what he called a "multiculturalist hell". » | Associated Press in Oslo | Friday, June 22, 2012

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Anders Behring Breivik Has 'Human Right' to Be Jailed: Defence
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik should be punished in prison for his brutal terror attacks last July, according to the killer's defence lawyer who pushed to overrule a recommendation that his his client should face "compulsory mental health care".

The defence's closing argument began the last session of the gruelling 10-week trial in which the Nordic nation has tried to come to terms with the worst atrocity in its post-war history.

"It is not violence which lies behind his acts, but political extremism," defence lawyer Geir Lippestad argued at the end of a speech in which he sought a "more lenient standard of proof on the question of sanity", for a case he said was "without precedent".

"The accused always benefits from reasonable doubt. When the accused wishes to be punished, then what?" he asked

"If we consider basic human rights, beginning with the fact that the accused has a radical political project that makes his actions pathological, then we could deprive him of his basic human rights: the right to be responsible for one's actions."

An insanity ruling would come as a bitter disappointment to the 33-year-old in his battle to ensure that his anti-Islamic ideology is not written off as the rantings of a madman.

Breivik has described treatment in a mental hospital as “a fate worse than death” and “the ultimate humiliation”, and has considerably toned down his original rhetoric about the Knights Templar movement to sway the judges.

Many fear that the killer will use the closing speech in the trial to once again expound his radical views, arguing that he should be seen as a hero for the atrocities he committed. » | Richard Orange | Friday, June 22, 2012

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Anders Behring Breivik Resists Insanity Claim by Prosecution
THE GUARDIAN: Prosecutors claim Norwegian is a delusional psychotic schizophrenic, but killer wants to be found sane

Norway is facing the prospect that Anders Behring Breivik could evade prison and live out his days in a specially constructed hospital after prosecutors asked judges in Oslo to rule him insane.

However, Breivik, who admits killing eight people in a bomb blast in the centre of Oslo before driving to nearby island Utøya and slaughtering 69 more, mostly teenage members of the Labour party youth wing, wants to be found sane.

If he gets his way he can be sentenced to 21 years in prison, with a provision to keep him longer if still considered dangerous. Crucially for Breivik, who claims to be part of a pan-European rightwing terror network called The Knights Templar, a jail sentence would also allow him to burnish his credentials as a political prisoner rather than be written off as a madman.

The self-styled anti-Islamic militant said his victims were legitimate targets in his battle against the "cultural-Marxists" encouraging an Islamic colonisation of Europe. (+ video) » | Mark Lewis in Oslo | Thursday, June 21, 2012

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Anders Behring Breivik Trial Hears Closing Statements
The prosecution in the trial of the Norwegian far-right mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has delivered its closing statement, calling for him to be sent to a mental institution instead of prison. The defence is likely to argue against a finding of insanity on Friday, the last day of the 10-week trial. Breivik is on trial for the murder of 77 people in a bombing and shooting massacre last summer

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Prosecutors Want Mass Killer Breivik Ruled Insane
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: OSLO (Reuters) - Prosecutors asked a Norwegian court on Thursday to declare far- right mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik insane and commit him to a mental institution, in line with their original indictment.

Breivik, who admits to killing 77 people in twin attacks last year, most of them teenagers at a Labour Party summer camp, says he should be declared sane, but acquitted on grounds that he was defending the Norwegian people by fighting the supporters of Muslim immigration.

Court-appointed psychiatrists have come to opposing conclusions. One team declared Breivik a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic, while a second concluded that he most likely suffered from a narcissistic personality disorder but was not psychotic, and could therefore be held criminally responsible. » | Reuters | Thursday, June 21, 2012

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Anders Behring Breivik Trial Nears End with Closing Arguments
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway last July, enters the final stretch on Thursday with the prosecutors' call for him to be sent either to prison or to a mental hospital.

Prosecutors Svein Holden and Inga Bejer Engh are to begin presenting their much-awaited closing arguments at 1000 GMT, when they will reveal whether they want the court to find Breivik responsible or not for his actions.

They will base their request on psychiatric evaluations of the 33-year-old right wing extremist which have sharply contradicted each other.

In the formal indictment presented in March, in which Breivik was charged with "acts of terror", the two prosecutors called for him to be committed to psychiatric care but left the door open to change their minds if new information were to surface about his mental health.

They adopted that line based on the sole psychiatric evaluation that had been completed at the time which diagnosed Breivik as insane, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and therefore not responsible for his actions.

That conclusion caused an uproar in Norway, with many stunned to learn that the man who spent years secretly and meticulously planning his twin attacks could not be held responsible for his actions. » | Source: AFP | Thursday, June 21, 2012

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Aung San Suu Kyi Gives Nobel Speech in Norway, 21 Years Later


Read the article and watch more videos here | Laura Smith-Spark | CNN | Saturday, June 16, 2012
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Suu Kyi Accepts Nobel Peace Prize 21 Years Late
REUTERS.COM: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally accepted her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending a total of 15 years under house arrest and said full political freedom in her country was still a long way off.

"Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal," Suu Kyi said in her acceptance speech during her first trip to Europe in nearly 25 years.

"Hostilities have not ceased in the far north; to the west, communal violence resulting in arson and murder were taking place just several days before I started out the journey that has brought me here today."

Suu Kyi, the Oxford University-educated daughter of General Aung San, Myanmar's assassinated independence hero, advocated caution about transformation in Myanmar, whose quasi-civilian government continues to hold political prisoners.

"There still remain such prisoners in Burma. It is to be feared that because the best known detainees have been released, the remainder, the unknown ones, will be forgotten," Suu Kyi, 66, told a packed Oslo City Hall.

A day earlier, she arrived from Switzerland to a jubilant reception as dancing and chanting crowds filled Oslo's streets and showered her with flowers. » | Balazs Koranyi | OSLO | Saturday, June 16, 2012