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The man in his 60s who was arrested yesterday in Skien, due to an extradition request from France, has been placed in preventive detention for four weeks by the Oslo District Court.
He appealed on the spot.
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The background for the indictment is an attack in Paris in 1982, where four perpetrators in suits attacked the Jewish restaurant Goldenberg, threw a grenade and then fired more than 70 shots at customers and employees. Six people died and 22 were injured.
Witnesses have identified the man as one of the perpetrators. The man denies criminal guilt for this.
He has heard about the French accusation against him since 2016. He has lived in Skien since 1991 and is a Norwegian citizen.
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Danger of evasion
The Oslo District Court believes that there is a danger that the man will avoid extradition, flee or hide, if he is not in custody.
The man’s advocate, attorney Kenneth Meland, thought custody of the man now would be disproportionate, in part due to the man’s health concerns, but the court did not uphold it.
The French extradition request will be considered at a later date.
The man risks a maximum penalty of 18 years in prison if convicted in France. There he is accused of murder and attempted murder. The reason he is not charged with terrorism is that the French law of 1982 had no such sanction.
For the second time
This is the second time that the French authorities have requested the Norwegian’s extradition. She has lived in Skien for over 20 years. The French judiciary wants to question him and bring him to justice for the attack. He is said to have been identified by multiple witnesses in 2015.
The new charge will be identical to the previous one, but this time the French authorities hope that he can be extradited, because Norway recently ratified the Nordic-European arrest warrant. The 2015 order states: “NN, a Skien resident, has been identified as a member of Abu Nidal’s Fatah-CR (or ANO) group and charged with the murder of six people and the attempted murder of another 22.”
It came into force on November 1 last year and allows Norwegian citizens to be extradited to EU states, with a short deadline for decision and implementation.
