Mayor Marit Warncke in Bergen is concerned. At the weekend, posters were put up with the names and photographs of the boys who kicked and beat a russ on 17 May.

Warncke calls it a pillory and a lynch mentality, according to NRK.

The question she does not ask is this: Why did people have to put up posters themselves?

The answer is simple. Because the authorities, of which Warncke herself is a part, consistently conceal the identities of foreign perpetrators in Norway. It is not an exception. It is policy. The media censor images. The police anonymise. The courts close the doors. The victim gets a name.

The perpetrator gets a veil.

So when Warncke asks what the purpose is of putting up posters, the answer is right in front of her: People are tired of a system that protects the perpetrators better than the victims.

She warns that this is not worthy of a constitutional state governed by law. That is a point. But she ought to consider who challenged the rule of law first. It was not those who pasted up posters in Bergen.

It was those who decided that Norwegians do not have the right to know who is assaulting their children.