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“In.”
It was Lailia Anita Bertheussen’s answer on whether she pleaded guilty to the 15 different charges in the case against her, which began yesterday in the Oslo District Court.
She is accused of attacking democracy through arson, damage and threats against important politicians, including her partner, the former Minister of Justice Tor Mikkel Wara. She is also accused of having done something to arouse suspicions that a criminal act has been committed, without being carried out.
On Tuesday, state prosecutor Marit Formo delivered the prosecution’s introductory speech and presented a summary of the evidence that will be presented during the case. She also presented a series of photos of the various incidents, showing, among other things, the threatening letters that were sent to Tor Mikkel Wara, who lived with Bertheussen, and to the couple Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde and Christian Tybring-Gjedde, and. housing around the turn of the year 2018/2019.
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Examined markers
In court, it was revealed, among other things, that Kripos examined a marker pen found in the house, to see if it may have been used to draw swastikas and write on the couple’s car on the night of December 6, 2018 , which was the first estimate against Wara and Bertheussen’s house on Røa in Oslo.
The then Minister of Justice was going to work when he discovered the inscription “RACISIT” on the wall of the house, and a swastika and “RACIST” written on the family’s Ford S-Max.
– Wara and Bertheussen were at this moment alone in the house, said Formo.
“They have not allowed the PST to come between them.”
Defend John Christian Elden on Wara and Bertheussen’s relationship
At the time, there were no surveillance cameras in the residence, only spotlights with motion sensors. Surveillance cameras came later.
In addition to the inscription on the car, a rope also hung from the gas tank, also the one with the red color. Also, it burned at one end.
I found urine on the letter
Prosecutor Marit Formo also said urine was found in threatening letters that were sent to Wara and the Tybring-Gjedde couple.
“I just have to laugh at them / We are not the dangerous ones, they are the racists,” he said in the introduction to both letters.
Polls
In the introductory talk, it was revealed that PST and Kripos have thoroughly investigated the various letters and objects used in the various incidents in the homes of the cohabitants.
State Attorney Formo notified, among other things, the presentation of evidence on stamps, printers and font analysis. She also said they believe Bertheussen herself is behind the confession letter that was sent to defense attorney John Christian Elden in the spring of last year.
– We assume that Bertheussen himself made the shipment or got someone to do it, said Formo.
He said the 55-year-old may have had one or more assistants to send this and subsequent letters to Elden, but stressed that they don’t believe he knew anything about the content and that they believe she acted alone.
Bertheussen was in the US when the bubble envelope, which contained an emergency hammer and a Dymo strip with misspelled Norwegian, was postmarked and sent to defender Elden.
In the Dymo tape strips, the sender claimed that “they” had spied on Wara’s house, and the names of two of the “Ways of Seeing” actors were mentioned, while clarifying that they had nothing to do with it.
Urine was found in a threatening letter
Formo said the prosecution believes the circumstances of the accusation are related to the work.
– The Public Ministry will state that it was the work and the events subsequent to what was the motive of the accused and what prompted her to carry out the facts of the indictment.
Index series
Defender John Christian Elden believes the evidence presented has not led to a conviction.
– They try to put together a case with the help of a series of clues, which play with “this may have something to do with it”, they conclude on that basis. “We have reacted to this and we believe that it does not lead to a conviction,” he told Dagbladet after the introductory lecture.
Bertheussen left the room together with his partner, who has the status of offended in the case, and who has his own assistant lawyer. When the trial was over, they went out together. Elden says the cohabiting couple “has not let PST come between them.”
Bag message
Bertheussen also appeared in court with a cloth bag printed with a passage from an email that police attorney Thomas Blom sent to Bertheussen’s defender, Elden.
The passage says the following:
«….. in the forwarded email from Bertheussen it appears that she is in the illusion that she must actively refute her guilt. The defense attorney is asked to convey that it is the task of the prosecution to seek evidence of both guilt and innocence and that it is the prosecution who bears the burden of proof. “
