OSLO : A man has been
jailed in Norway for making serious and concrete threats against high-level
politicians including Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian police said
Wednesday.
The man, who was no identified, “Has been accused of making
serious threats against people of authority”, Trond Hugubakken, a spokesman for
Norwegian media reports the the prime minister had been threatened.
The suspect stepfather, a high-level politician in
Stoltenberg’s Labor Party, had also been threatened, he said, without
identifying the politician.
The man had been arrested last Friday, shortly after
returning to Norway after living abroad for a period of time, Hugabakakken said,
insisting the arrest “was not dramatic”.
He had gone before a judge on Tuesday and was remanded in
custody for four weeks, as police continue to investigate the case, he said,
adding only that the threats the man had made were “concrete” and “very serious”.
According to Norwegian daily Dagbladet, which broke the
story early Wednesday, the man had been living in China for the past year and
had made death threats against the Prime Minister and others from abroad.
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