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ACTION: Police fired on a man they were to arrest at an apartment hotel in Lakkegata on Grønland in Oslo on Sunday night.
According to the family, the young man who was shot by police in Oslo on Sunday night was hit on the right side of the chest. They say he’s on a ventilator Sunday night.
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A 22-year-old man was shot by police near a Greenland hotel in central Oslo on Sunday night and is on a ventilator at Ullevål hospital.According to relatives, he was shot in the right chest and not in the abdomen, as previously claimed.The family is critical, questioning why police shot him in the upper body instead of the lower body, claiming that no weapon was found at the scene.The man works in the school environment and is not known for violence, the family claims. He was previously fined for obstructing an official.Police chief Jan Erik Thomassen confirmed that the man had been shot in the upper body, but would not give details about why that happened.Police say the 22-year-old is now charged with drug trafficking.view moreVG has spoken to a person who says he is a longtime neighbor and close friend of the family and the 22-year-old and speaks on behalf of the family.
Together with some relatives, he spent the whole night in the emergency room of Ullevål hospital, says the contact person.
It was there that the young man was taken by ambulance on Sunday night after being shot by police during an action at a Grønland hotel in central Oslo.
WORKING ON THE SITE: The Bureau writes in a press release that Kripos assists with on-site crime scene investigations.The relative contact VG spoke to says that the injured man works at a school and plays a lot of football.
– He has worked in the school environment. He’s not a bully. That he was shot shocks us all, says the man.
He says the 22-year-old was shot in the chest and not in the stomach as claimed elsewhere.
– He was shot in the right side of the chest. This is confirmed by his older brother who was present in the ambulance, the man says.
THE POLICE ARMED THEMSELVES: The incident happened in Greenland in Oslo.– Ten minutes before, everything was fine
The relative’s contact says he usually works at a nightclub in Greenland, near the hotel where the young man was shot. He came by at 1:30 a.m. Saturday night to talk to colleagues.
The brother of the man with gunshot wounds was also present.
The man who was shot also came by and said hello.
– I met him ten minutes before it happened, and then everything was fine with him. He appeared not to be under the influence of drugs. Shortly afterwards I get word that he has been shot and is in an ambulance. It seems to us that they went after the wrong person.
– The situation is serious
The next of kin say that he immediately went to the hospital.
– Around four o’clock we were told that he was seriously injured and that he would have died if the ambulance had not arrived so quickly. A bullet passed through the upper body and entered the spinal cord.
VG has been in contact with the hospital, which does not want to comment on this.
The 22-year-old is currently in intensive care, says the family friend.
– The situation is serious. He’s on a ventilator, unable to communicate or move his legs. The bullet is still lodged in his spinal cord and hospital staff are constantly assessing his prognosis.
He says the family is very critical and surprised that the police have not contacted them.
– Despite the seriousness of the situation, we have still not been contacted. This puts a huge burden on the family. We question the lack of follow-up by the police in a situation like this.
According to communication consultant in the Oslo precinct, Siv Alsén, the police have been in contact with the 22-year-old’s family.
– For the sake of the investigation, we do not want to go into details about what that contact was about, she tells VG.
Sidra Bhatti of the Rogstad law firm is the family’s lawyer. VG hasn’t spoken to Bhatti yet.
– Why against the upper body?
– The police are trained to deal with such situations. If there was any real threat from the 22-year-old, we wonder why the choice was made to shoot the upper body and not the lower body.
They find it particularly worrying that shots were fired at the upper body, because according to the family no weapon should have been found.
– It shocked us all.
When asked if he knows if there would have been drug use in the young man’s group of friends, the friend of the family replies that he is not aware of this.
– We’re sure he wasn’t under the influence of drugs tonight.
Not convicted of drugs or violence
VG has been unable to find any previous convictions for the man, apart from a NOK 11,000 fine for preventing service to a government official. This must have happened in the summer of 2021.
The 22-year-old was charged with drug trafficking on Sunday, the police told VG on Sunday evening.
InfoThis happened
A man in his 20s was seriously injured after being shot in the upper body by police during a Greenland operation in Oslo on Sunday night. The action was part of a larger effort by the Oslo precinct against drug dealers in the Greenland region. Two people in their 20s would be arrested during the operation, and both are Norwegian citizens. The Bureau is now investigating the matter and will investigate why the police fired and whether more than one shot was fired. Police say the two men are acquaintances from earlier.view moreActing police chief Jan Erik Thomassen gave information about the incident at a press conference on Sunday.
He confirms that the man was seriously injured after being shot in the upper body.
Thomassen says police had previously decided that two people in their 20s should be arrested and that one of them is the man who was shot.
He says that the police are arming themselves for this kind of mission, and that more information and intelligence is gathered in advance before the police intervene.
Both are Norwegian citizens.
Thomassen does not want to go into detail about why the police felt compelled to shoot.
Couldn’t say why
During Sunday’s press conference, Thomassen said that the two individuals were well known to the police from the past.
– Do any of them have a history of violence?
– I actually do not know.
– Why was the person shot in the upper body?
– I can’t say anything about that either, the special unit has to investigate that.
Jan Erik Thomassen emphasized at the press conference that the Oslo precinct has paid more attention this summer to criminal circles selling drugs in the Greenland area of Oslo.
He pointed out that there have been several instances of gun use and that this summer there has been shooting on the open street in Greenland between criminal groups.
published:Published: 09.07.23 at 22:39
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