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October 14, 2021 The day after the ambush in which he killed five people (and injured two others) with a bow and arrow, more details emerge about the killer in the Norwegian city of Kongsberg. 



His name is Espen Andersen Brathen, and he had precedents, but above all, he had announced in English in a video posted in 2017 on Facebook his conversion to Islam. Nine years ago he had threatened a relative with death and received a restraining order for this. The man, a 37-year-old Danish citizen, will appear in court tomorrow morning.



In 2017 he had converted to Islam


After his religious conversion he was reported as being radicalized. This was reported by the Norwegian police. The victims of the massacre are four women and a man, all between the ages of 50 and 70. Both hospitalized victims are in intensive care. Among them, an off-duty police officer who was inside the shop. Kongsberg police chief Øyvind Aas said the alleged attacker was the only person involved and added that the attacks took place in a large area of ​​the city and that several crime scenes were involved. 



The terrorist matrix is ​​not yet ruled out


The motive of the attacker is not yet clear but there are investigations underway, according to the police chief the terrorist matrix is ​​not yet ruled out. "It is natural to consider whether this is an act of terrorism, he said, but it is too early to come to any conclusions."



The tale of the ambush with bow and arrows


The Norwegian public broadcaster, NRK, said police in Kongsberg, a municipality of about 28,000 people, received reports at around 6.15pm local time that a man was walking through the city center shooting a bow and arrow. A woman who partly witnessed the attack, Hansine, told TV2 that she saw a woman taking cover and "a man standing in the corner with arrows in a quiver on his shoulder and a bow in his hand." "After that, I saw people running for safety. One of them was a woman holding a child by the hand," she said. Shortly after the attack, the Norwegian National Police Directorate said it ordered officers across the nation to carry firearms. Norwegian police are normally unarmed,but agents have access to guns and rifles when needed.