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On January 1, the crew aboard the ore ship en route to Norway discovered that they had a stowaway. Nine days later, the man is said to have jumped overboard at Ofotfjorden, outside Narvik. Emergency services were notified of a man on board at 10:27 a.m. on Saturday.
Police Chief Ingunn Opdal Iversen, who is leading the investigation into the case, informs NRK that the missing person is a man in his 40s who was a blind passenger aboard the ore ship.
Crew questioned
The man did not have identity documents, but must have told the crew he was from Syria. The first message from the crew was that the man had jumped overboard.
– We are investigating the case extensively and cannot say more while the investigation is ongoing. We now have police officers on the ship, who are conducting more interrogations of the crew, as well as investigations of the crime scene, Opdal Iversen told NRK on Monday.
The search involved both helicopter ambulances, coast guards and several boats, which ended at 6 pm on Saturday without findings. So seven and a half hours had passed since the man disappeared.
Beach search
– After the raid, the Armed Forces conducted a raid on the beach in a huge area. The search has been canceled for the moment, but not completed, Iversen informs Fremover.
The police are working together with Kripos, the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration and Interpol in the hope of identifying the man so that they can later notify relatives and relatives.
Hans Björkestam, head of safety and environment at Finnish shipping company ESL Shipping Ltd, which owns “Arkadia”, says the man probably got on board when the ship was in the Mediterranean, probably in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the north of Africa, where they left. New Year’s Eve port.
