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| Algerian held in Oslo doctor's fatal stabbing |
| 2006-03-31 |
| A 37-year-old man from Algeria, who was appealing the denial of his application for asylum in Norway, was in police custody Thursday. He's charged with stabbing a doctor to death in downtown Oslo on Wednesday. The fatal stabbing set off a dramatic mid-day manhunt that ended Wednesday night with the arrest of Kamel Mellah, who reportedly has a record of psychiatric problems. Police had been able to identify the murder suspect fairly quickly, because he'd had an appointment with Dr Stein Sjaastad in Sjaastad's doctor's office earlier in the day. Mellah, who initially wasn't identified in Aftenposten because of editorial policy, is charged with threatening the doctor's receptionist, pulling a knife on Sjaastad and stabbing him repeatedly in the neck and chest area. The doctor died at the scene. Police spokesman Finn Abrahamsen said Mellah had been in Norway for a few years but hadn't been granted permanent resident status. Abrahamsen said he was known for being aggressive towards healthcare workers, and police had warned healthcare personnel in Oslo Wednesday afternoon not to deal with him in case he sought them out while on the run. Mellah had lived at an asylum center in Mosjøen, northern Norway, until last year, when he moved to Oslo. Newspaper Aftenposten reported that he had a history of psychiatric problems and once had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital in northern Norway. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #7 "Logic is not that common in discussion within the families so logic is truely alien to the more severe patients. That makes treatment very problematic." Actually, it clarifies the treatmnet issue. |
| Posted by: Varun of Delhi 2006-03-31 18:48 |
| #6 It's hard to tell which guy's the mental case in that country. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-03-31 14:24 |
| #5 The wife is in the Mental Health field. The patients that drive her up the wall the most tend to be the muslim ones. She finds their families to be particularly unhelpful. Logic is not that common in discussion within the families so logic is truely alien to the more severe patients. That makes treatment very problematic. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-03-31 11:49 |
| #4 Mellah, who initially wasn't identified in Aftenposten because of editorial policy... Hmmmmm? What might that editorial policy be? And why might it be that way? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-03-31 10:51 |
| #3 'Moose, this wasn't a third-world cesspool, it was Oslo. They're supposed to be a civilized country, remember? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-03-31 10:16 |
| #2 It is good to remember how annoying the mentally ill can be in the US; then to consider how very many are walking around on the street in the rest of the world, and not just the moderately mentally ill, but the extremely, dangerously mentally ill. With no effort to treat or incarcerate them, unless they kill somebody. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-31 10:02 |
| #1 I guess this means he'll be staying in Norway... |
| Posted by: imoyaro 2006-03-31 01:12 |