Rape, Rape Case | DNA blows in Austria led to rape of man in Oslo

A man with Romanian citizenship was arrested on Saturday for what police believe is a rape that is said to have taken place in central Oslo on June 16 this year.

The rape is believed to have taken place around 9:00 p.m. and police believe that coercion was used to carry out the criminal act.

The man believes the sexual contact was voluntary and denies criminal guilt.

It wasn’t in the Norwegian DNA records.

He requested his release when he was released into custody on Monday afternoon. The court declared his innocence, but the police were sentenced to four weeks in prison.

The woman, who is in a vulnerable situation, reported the incident and showed the police the scene of the crime shortly after the sexual contact. A few days later, a search was conducted with a criminal search dog that marked sperm prints.

The samples were submitted for analysis, but on September 3, police received comments that there was an impact on an unknown DNA profile. One theory was that it could be a person who was not registered in the Norwegian police DNA registry.

But international police cooperation paid off. At the end of September, they received a response from the Austrian police who had registered the man’s DNA profile in their records. The man has been involved in a criminal case in Austria and has been convicted there and in other European countries.

In early October, it was decided to arrest the man in Norway. On Saturday 10 October he was detained at an Esso station in Ryen in Oslo.

– We discovered the case after the victim reported the case to the police. Forensic investigations were carried out on the spot, eventually turning up DNA findings in a profile in Austria. The person in question has no known cases in Norway, police lawyer Kari Kirkhorn tells Nettavisen.

– We are pleased that our findings on the forensic science track yielded results in collaboration with overseas police in this case.

Without knowledge of the accusations

Before the DNA meeting in Austria, the Norwegian police had nothing to do. But after the response from Central Europe, the case gained momentum. In other records, the Norwegian police have access to locate a car and a phone number that was linked to it.

– We found some information about him, including that he is a foreign citizen who is in Norway. He was arrested in Ryen on Saturday, Kirkhorn says.

The police believe that there is good reason to be suspicious, that is, that there is an absolute probability against the man in his 40s of having committed the criminal act. In questioning, there have been divergent explanations between the offended man and woman.

– The investigation is based on the explanation of the victim, so there are circumstances around this. Without going into his explanation, we think there are good reasons to be suspicious. There is other evidence in the case as well, such as the DNA finding, Kirkhorn says.

The fact that the man is a foreign citizen made the police want to imprison him for danger of evasion. Therefore, he was concerned that he would flee the country. The Romanian has been in Norway since March of this year.

– The action took place on June 16, after that a long time has passed and he has not evaded after having sexual contact. He has made no attempt to escape the country or evade action, defender of man Olav Ramel Haaland tells Nettavisen.

The defendant did not have knowledge of the accusations until a few days ago, when he was arrested. However, the defense attorney argued that there was no danger of evasion and that the man could be released from the daily obligation to report, but therefore was not heard by the court.

– When you find out that you are accused of such a serious act, it will be important because of the danger of evasion. But what I discussed was that he hasn’t made any attempts in the time that passed before he found out.