“There is no doubt that the act itself has indications that suggest that it may be a terrorist act, but now it is important that the investigation progress and that the suspect’s motive is clarified, “said the head of the Norwegian security services (PST) Hans Sverre Sjøvold at a press conference.
Ole Bredrup Saeverud, the district commissioner, noted that “the police have been in contact with him before” and that “there was a concern related to his radicalization”.
However, it reported that during 2021 there had been “no notice” about this person.
The aggressor used more weapons in the attack and the Police are “quite sure” that acted alone.
The dead are four women and a man aged between 50 and 70 years and whose identity has not yet been made public.
One of the two injured is a policeman who was on a day off.
Ann Iren Svane Mathiassen, the police lawyer leading the investigation, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that the suspect will be evaluated by forensic psychiatry experts on Thursday.
Meanwhile, according to Fredrik Neumann, the attacker’s lawyer, he was willing to cooperate.
“It is explained in detail, and it talks and cooperates with the police”, declared the lawyer to the press.
The attack took place at various points in a large area of Kongsberg, notably at a supermarket, where an off-duty police officer was injured.
Alerted, the police arrested the suspect more than half an hour later.
The officers were attacked with arrows during the operation, for which they fired warning shots.
The testimonies gave an account of the terror that gripped the residents of Kongsberg at the time of the events.
The attack occurred on the last day of the term of the conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who this Thursday will hand over the reins to a new center-left government led by Jonas Gahr Store, winner in the September 13 legislative elections.
Store lamented “horrible acts.”
In response to the attack, the Norwegian police leadership decreed that the agents, who are generally unarmed, would temporarily carry weapons across the country.
Norway, a generally peaceful country, has been the scene of far-right attacks in the past.
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people by detonating a bomb near the government headquarters in Oslo, before opening fire at a Labor Youth rally on the island of Utoya.
In August 2019, Philip Manshaus He fired on a mosque on the outskirts of Oslo, before being subdued by the crowd, without seriously injuring himself.
Before the attack, he shot down his adopted Asian sister for racism.
The authorities also thwarted several Islamist attacks.
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