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– There were three guys against an old man. He was sure that he was going to die and hoped to die soon. It was such an overwhelming attack. It was absolutely terrible, said Reidar Osen (72) in his gratuitous explanation.
The defendants in their 30s pleaded guilty in part to having kidnapped and robbed Osen in December 2015 and to having done the same to Petter Slengesol nine months earlier.
Was put in a grave
Osen said he sat in his truck one rainy afternoon in Bergen.
– Suddenly, a hand comes from the back room and pulls me back. I put a gun in my mouth and then my teeth and jaw break. They undress me and cover my head with a bag. I can’t breathe and completely panic, the 72-year-old said when he relived what happened.
According to Osen, one of the three men in Finnish hats had more information that few knew. He had sold a tenement house for a specified sum, but reported a more round sum to a Romanian he knew in the city. This sum was mentioned by one of the assailants and he was asked to pay 2 million crowns.
– They said my last hour had come. I was sitting on the edge of a grave to which they had taken me. They pushed me down. “I thought it was horrible that I was going to die here,” he said.
During this time of approximately two hours, your phone begins to ring. He is crushed by the perpetrators and they disappear.
“Since then, I have struggled with this for five years,” Osen said.
DNA hits
Police lawyer Jørgen Henriksen in the Vestland police district said the police first thought that what was behind it was a personal Romanian gallery. But last summer, German police found a DNA match in one of the two Poles who linked him to the case in Bergen.
The defense referred to the media coverage and asked that it not be relevant to the court’s assessment.
Initially it was pointed out that Osen himself should have participated in the robbery preparations, and that it should appear as an actual act. His assistant lawyer, Einar Drægebø, pointed out that this claim was very onerous for his client.
Shone all over the car
Like Osen, Slengesol also explained in detail what happened on the night of February 2015 when he was attacked in his truck.
He remembered seeing two Finnish hooded eyes staring out the car window in Bergen. The car door was opened and he was doused with a liquid.
– I remember there were four people or more. One of them jumped on top of me, they began to beat me and hold me, he said in his explanation where he had to take several breaks.
Slengesol explained that one of the four spoke calmly and in broken English.
– They constantly asked me where all the money was. I replied that I have no money and that they were wrong. They produced an electroshock weapon. It was shining all over the car, he said.
Your time to die
Slengesol said he was sure his last hour had come.
– I try to make a sound to get attention. They try to break my fingers and arms. I pass out a couple of times. They repeat several times that it is my time to die, said the offended man.
He did everything he could to free himself.
– I’m fighting for my life. He was sure he was going to die, it felt like an eternity, Slengesol said and said that he often dreamed of what happened.
