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Investigator in Kongsberg, Norway
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Three days after the bow attack in Norway, the Federal Foreign Office confirmed to SPIEGEL that one of the five fatalities was also a German.
"Unfortunately we have to confirm that one of the victims is a German citizen who has been living in Norway for a long time," said a spokesman for the Foreign Office.
Norwegian media and t-online reported about it first.
The speaker did not want to give details about the woman's age or living conditions.
Norwegian investigators consider it increasingly unlikely that the crime was motivated by terrorism.
Instead, the suspicion of a mental illness is reinforced.
The investigations had shown that the man had not taken his alleged conversion to Islam seriously, said police inspector Thomas Omholt at a press conference on Saturday.
There is also no indication that the alleged perpetrator was in contact with other people.
According to the police, the Dane was in constant contact with the health service over the course of several years.
Omholt did not want to comment on details about the man's mental health in order not to influence testimony.
The alleged perpetrator's lawyer told Norwegian broadcaster TV2 that he agreed with the police's preliminary results.
A court ordered the Dane to be detained for four weeks on Friday.
He was not placed in a prison but in a closed medical facility.
He has to spend the first two weeks in isolation.
In addition, the court imposed a ban on visits, the media and letters.
Due to his state of health, however, he is not yet able to be questioned.
dpa / vet
