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TV 2 meets Kristian Aagaard in the center of Tromsø. He works as a volunteer for the street magazine Virkelig and knows the drug scene in the city well. He is now afraid that three young men outside the heavy drug milieu have recently died after taking counterfeit pills marked with the name Ksalol.
– They are healthy young people, beautiful in their clothes and living in safe homes. They go under the radar of everything, Aagaard tells TV 2.
MORE MAY DIE: Kristian Aagaard is worried. Photo: Simen Askjer / TV 2
– So the three who are dead are not in an environment of heavy drugs?
– No, and that’s what makes it even scarier. This is the environment that you would normally buy a few grams of hash and buy beer, and it would stick a bit. Not continuously, but more like weekend stuff sometimes, Aagaard says.
According to Aagaard, the hashish drought in much of Norway may be one of the reasons that young people try sedatives instead of hashish.
– When the hashish is not here, there are more people who take these tablets. Then they can take more tablets, and then drink some beer, and suddenly these tablets come to visit us in earnest and take over the party after an hour. And then the train left. So it’s just a matter of luck whether or not you survive, says Aagaard.
In various reports, TV 2 has recently talked about the criminal industry behind counterfeit drugs and how easy it is for anyone to produce counterfeit drugs.
When TV 2 was in China last year, we met several manufacturers who said they were willing to copy prescription drugs with completely different ingredients than the original tablet.
Five people arrested and 1,700 pills seized after three deaths
Scare pills contain fentanyl
In the fake tablets that are now rapidly spreading across Norway, it is feared that those who made the copies mixed it with the potentially deadly substance Fentanyl.
– Fentanyl is so strong that if you don’t mix it properly, one tablet can be harmless and another tablet can be fatal on the same board, Aagaard explains to TV 2, adding:
– There is no quality control. It is not the professionals who do this
With three deaths in Tromsø alone recently, Aagaard is highly critical of the fact that the police did not come out and warn against fake pills earlier.
– I’m afraid more people will die. Yes I am. Ugly is afraid of him, Aagaard tells TV 2.
Police critic
Troms police have recently received criticism from various quarters. This is due to the fact that the warning came several days after the deaths in the city and more than a month after the large seizures in Harstad.
– We have noticed that there have been reactions, especially in the user environment. The reason is that the police must have a good level of knowledge before issuing such a warning. We have known Ksalol since 2017, but they have been original products. What we fear now is that these are fake pills containing extremely dangerous substances, Troms Police District Investigation Chief Yngve Myrvoll tells TV 2.
BE QUIET: Police shut up over several who think the warning came too late. Photo: Tobias Kvalvik Henriksen / TV 2
The uncertainty now surrounding the three deaths in Tromsø is that the police have yet to receive the final analysis of the pills.
– But the common denominator in the deaths are the tablets mentioned, he says.
The case has a very high priority with the Troms police.
– We work with the crews we have available. We try to track sales links, we talk to the environment and we work to be able to carry out more attacks. Until we get the answers we want, we keep in mind that these are tablets that can contain lethal substances.
