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DRAMATIC APPEARANCE: Police at the Dale scene in Sandnes, where police shot a man in his 50s after shooting himself in April this year. Photo: NTB
The special unit is closing the case against the police officers who shot a man in the stomach in Dale, Sandnes, in April this year. According to the prosecution’s decision, the police feared for their lives.
“It’s him or us,” explained one of the two shooters who was thinking.
The special unit for police affairs has investigated the dramatic arrest on Friday, April 3 this year and concluded that the police did not do anything wrong as they acted in self-defense and therefore legally shot a 50-year-old man.
19.26 The police operations center received a phone call from a person in Dale in Sandnes who stated that a man who lived in the same apartment building as he had shot into the air with a larger weapon. In addition, the person said that he thought the man had several weapons in his apartment and that he appeared to be drunk.
Police came out with several patrol cars to arrest the man. They were armed and driving an armored vehicle.
After taking a position in front of his apartment, the police called the man in his 50s and told them they were standing outside and wanted to speak to him.
“Then he started hitting”
One of the policemen who was sitting in the armored car has explained that he observed that the man entered the door and that he immediately raised his arms.
Then he started hitting. H (anonymous editor’s note) saw that the car’s path was hit right in front of where he was sitting. He felt in danger of death, ”he says in the Office’s prosecution decision.
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Another police officer explained that he observed a pipe on the man’s body and that he shouted “weapons”, before seeing two flames in the mouth and hearing blows.
D (anonymous editor’s note) ran for cover of the armored car as it narrowed further. experienced the incident as a war, ”writes the Bureau of Investigation.
Several of the other policemen have also explained that they thought they were in mortal danger.
12 shots fired at the police
According to the decision of the Office’s prosecutor’s office, the man probably fired 12 shots at the police with a semi-automatic rifle. The police fired 10 shots with a pistol and an MP5.
The man was hit in the stomach but was not seriously injured. He has explained to the police that the last thing he remembers of the day is that he made himself a drink in the afternoon. Then he doesn’t remember anything until he woke up in the hospital.
During the arrest, the police used a dog that inflicted a three-centimeter long tear on the man’s forearm that had to be stitched up.
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After investigating the case, the Investigations Office has concluded that the police officers who fired acted in self-defense and have abandoned the case as no crime was proven. The case against the dog handler has also been dropped on the same basis, and for the other police officers the conclusion is that no crime is considered proven.
LOCKOUT: Police cordoned off the area next to the apartment in Dale in Sandnes after he was shot during an arrest in April this year. Photo: Carina Johansen, NTB
The task force believes that it is highly likely that some of the shots fired by the man would have hit the police if the action vehicle had not been armored.
“As the situation developed, the Office concluded that the action could not have been prevented by more lenient means,” the decision states.
The man’s defender, Knut Lerum, informs NRK that he has seen the suspension of the Bureau of Investigation.
– I have read the suspension and have some ideas about the behavior of the police. But I keep them to myself. I have no particular comment on the suspension beyond that, he says.
