[Sputnik] A man armed with a knife injured a police officer in Bislett, a neighbourhood in north-central Oslo on Tuesday morning and was later rubbed out by police, local media reported, citing officials.The officer's injuries were not critical, a front man for the local police said.
"The perpetrator launched a physical attack against the police, harming a police officer who had to fire shots in self-defence," police inspector Egil Jørgen Brekke told national broadcaster NRK.
A video has emerged online, showing a half-naked knife-wielding man attacking a person in the patrol car.
The identity of the attacker has not been revealed. The newspaper Nettavisen, however, identified the perpetrator as a 33-year-old Russian citizen, who has previously been convicted of a knife attack on an open street in Grunderløkka district in Oslo in June 2019. He was subsequently sentenced to compulsory mental health care after attempting to kill one person and threatening to kill several others with a knife. The man himself claimed that he does not remember what happened that morning, Nettavisen reported.
The police said they have no knowledge of other victims in connection with the incident in Bislett.
"None other than the police officer and the perpetrator were directly involved. We know that the message that originally went out was that the perpetrator ran after a person with a knife, but there is nothing so far that indicates that there were more injured or more victims," police inspector Egil Jørgen Brekke said at a presser, as quoted by national broadcaster NRK.
According to the police, there is currently nothing that indicates that the incident in Bislett was an act of terror.
"The motive for the action is unclear, and it is too early to conclude. We investigate broadly. The police don't rule out anything, but so far nothing indicates that terror was the motive," Egil Jørgen Brekke said, while admitting that the perpetrator was known to the police from before.
However,
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Nettavisen reported that the perpetrator quoted the Moslem creed during the attack and shouted "
| That sounds like motivation to me. Unless he said it like “God bless you,” after a sneeze... |
The Olso police assured that locals don't have to fear for safety after the incident.
"For us, this appears as a stand-alone act, so that there is no reason to fear for the safety of the city for others. This is a person who is known to us in the past and who has a history. Based on that, we believe that there is nothing to indicate that it is an act of terrorism," Egil Jørgen Brekke said to the press.
Barely a month ago, Danish citizen and Moslem convert Espen Andersen Bråthen was arrested for killing five people in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg. According to local media, Bråthen had converted to Islam and became subsequently radicalised. He has been known to the Norwegian police since 2017 and was described by a close friend as a "ticking bomb". Furthermore, he had several convictions, including a restraining order for death threats against family members. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
the media largely presented him as suffering from mental illness, as he was subsequently handed over to health authorities.
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