A criminal known to the police threatens passers-by in Oslo with a knife.
With a particularly unusual method, the police try to stop the man.
Oslo - In Norway's capital, on Tuesday morning (
November 9th
), according to the
dpa
report, the local police were called near the Bislett Stadium because a shirtless man threatened passers-by with a knife.
On site, the officers found the man with a knife in his hand and tried, judging by various videos, to first bring the man to his senses by talking to him.
Knife attack in Oslo: policeman shoots perpetrator - dead shortly afterwards
When the perpetrator apparently wants to run on the sidewalk, you can see on video footage how a patrol car drives onto the said sidewalk and pushes the man against a wall.
He can get out of the situation and goes for the passenger of the patrol car.
He opens the door and tries to keep the attacker at a distance by kicking him.
But he can't be stopped - the policeman shoots, and shortly afterwards the man dies.
According to the police, a terrorist motive cannot be assumed.
"This is a person who was already known to us and has a story," explains a police spokesman
at a press conference,
according to the
dpa
.
"And on this basis we see no evidence of a terrorist act, at the same time we do not rule out anything."
Perpetrator dead after knife attack in Oslo: man already known to the police
The Norwegian authorities did not explain exactly how the man's history looks and why he was already known.
According to the spokesman, the policeman's injuries are not critical.
Just two weeks ago there was a similar knife attack in Vienna, killing four people.
Here, too, the perpetrator was already known to the police.
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