Document has written about the severe violence that a gang of immigrants carried out against a russe student on 17 May in Bergen. Now the media are attempting to create empathy for the perpetrators of violence.
For these boys were minors, as though that were an excuse for such conduct, which included hitting and kicking a person lying on the ground.
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Now these violent individuals are themselves experiencing threats in comment sections, and the police are considering punishing those who issue threats, according to NRK.
FrP politician Jon Helgheim shared a video of the gruesome attack on Thursday, and was immediately attacked by police prosecutor Linn Søfteland in the Western Police District.
– I am left speechless. He ought to have chosen different words and focused attention on it in another manner than the way he chose to do it.
Bergensavisen wrote on Wednesday that someone had offered a reward in the case, and the focus is being directed towards racism.
– We believe we have identified some of those involved. If there are others, they are encouraged to contact us, police prosecutor Søfteland tells BA.
Søfteland confirms to NRK that they have registered threats against the suspects. The police prosecutor views this as racism.
– I have registered that a number of racist statements have appeared in the comment sections. One may say quite a lot within freedom of expression, but there is a limit. We cannot rule out that we will open a criminal case concerning the threats.
If immigrants are subjected to violence by ethnic Norwegians, however, all reactions appear to be permitted. Hamse Ali received a pile of money and a torchlight procession in Bergen when he falsely claimed that some racists had beaten him up, while in reality he had fallen from an electric scooter while drunk.
Benjamin Hermansen received his statue and was honoured with commemorations for more than twenty years after he was killed. Hermansen was, however, subjected to a serious criminal act that cost him his life, unlike Hamse Ali. But Norwegians killed by immigrants receive no commemorations.
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What about the russe student who was the victim in the case?
Malene Lillebostad Svendsen is counsel for the aggrieved party, and writes in an e-mail to Bergens Tidende that the violence came completely unexpectedly to him, and that the attack occurred without provocation. He sustained physical injuries to the face and head.
– To him, the incident appears incomprehensible. He has never previously met the perpetrators involved, and they are entirely unknown to him. The aggrieved party experiences the incident as brutal, and it has affected him deeply. He is struggling and is on sick leave.
The spread of the video also affects the russe boy.
– The videos have within a short time achieved several hundred thousand views. The extensive media exposure has imposed a considerable additional burden upon the aggrieved party beyond the violent incident itself.
Two of the suspects have been identified, and the police believe they will know all the perpetrators of violence within a short time. Interviews are planned with the minor perpetrators and the russe student who was attacked within a few days.
But for how long will the russe student, who was attacked and subjected to severe violence entirely without reason, be remembered in the editorial offices of the regime media?