Will take the life of the celebrity Live after the bite drama

Four-legged Finnmarking has so far slipped under the celebrity radar here at home.

It has been screened at 12 film festivals around the world and has been broadcast by onlookers millions of times since last spring.

Not long ago, the camel Bor from Akkarfjord in Hammerfest and his two-legged family were invited to a camel festival in Saudi Arabia.

Then a dramatic episode takes place that suddenly creates uncertainty about the career of film celebrity Bor, both at his home on the Sørøya coast and in the great world of camel and film.

On Thursday night, seven-year-old Bor bit a helpful neighbor so badly on the leg that an ambulance helicopter from Northern Norway University Hospital pulled out. The neighbor, an Englishman in his 20s, was admitted to Tromsø hospital with a main vein damaged by a bite.

– Must be killed

And on Friday, another neighbor contacted the police to demand that Bor be killed.

It was the iFinnmark newspaper that first spoke about the bite wound, the ambulance helicopter and the neighbor’s demand to kill the movie celebrity.

And not only that. A vet attempt this summer to castrate Bor away from the fierce heat was only partially successful. Or it failed.

Norway’s first

The Sætereng host family of Norway’s first camels outside the zoo had already urged the vet to do the necessary part 2 of the operation.

– Now there have been unfortunate circumstances one on top of the other. Bor is friendly and popular. He must have felt, the lady and daughter threatened when the neighbor would guide him back to the right side of the fence Thursday night, food mother Oddveig Sætereng tells Dagbladet by phone the following night.

She sees the newborns Bor (7), the equally old mother camel Bestla and the camel Vilje (10 months) in the dark outside the enclosure.

Bor, Bestla and the Sætereng family became movie celebrities after the premiere this spring of Karl Emil Rikardsen’s documentary “Kamel.”

The story of the interaction between people and something as exotic as wild camels at the northern end of the Arctic Circle has resonated in several countries.

The world’s largest wild camel herd is in the Australian outback, 14,000 kilometers away in a straight line. As children, Bor and Bestla came from Øland in Sweden.

– Let Bor live

Oddveig Sætereng is looking forward to one thing Friday night in the drama surrounding the family’s four-legged Mongolian camel.

– I have talked to the neighbor who was bitten. He’s fine in Tromsø hospital and he doesn’t want Bor killed. Understand that it was an unfortunate circumstance.

– And the police have called for another neighbor to demand that they kill him. The police wanted to find out about the situation and decide whether to contact the Norwegian Food Safety Authority or what happens when they have examined the case, he explains.

The million-dollar movie “Camel” was shot at home in Akkarfjord and with camel trainers in Mongolia with the Sætereng family among the actors.

Qatar, the Czech Republic and perhaps Saudi Arabia

– My husband Øystein and our son Torarinn have been to film festivals in Doha in Qatar and in the Czech Republic that they invited. They were also supposed to be at a festival in Murmansk, but it was canceled due to the crown situation.

The Saudi investigation is so recent that the details are unclear.

– This applies to the invitation to a camel festival. Someone has seen the movie. And they want to take down Bor himself. Now I dare not say anything about how things are going, says Oddveig Sætereng, still glimpsing the outlines of the camel family under the dark Finnmark sky.