He tried to stab passers-by – He was hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic
The Norwegian police announced that shot and killed this morning in Oslo a man armed with a knife who tried to stab other people, then attacked a police patrol went to arrest him.
A police officer was injured during an operation to arrest the man, which took place on a street in the Bislet district of the Norwegian capital, police said, adding that they did not believe it was a terrorist attack.
“We do not rule out any motive, but there is no information at this stage that directs (us) to a terrorist attack,” Inspector Egil Jürgen Breke told a news conference.
Investigators confirmed the identity of the perpetrator during the day, as reported by the media: this is a 33-year-old Russian man who was sentenced in December 2020 to be treated in a psychiatric clinic , after a knife attack a year earlier in Oslo. According to the police, he had left the psychiatric clinic with permission, where he was being treated.
A video of eyewitnesses posted on social media by Norwegian media shows the man, topless and holding a large knife, being dragged at least twice by a patrol car.
Having first reached a wall, the man then runs to the patrol car, manages to open the door and rush inwards.
“The police tried to stop him while he was trying to stab someone. “Then he attacked the police with a knife (…) and shots were fired”, according to what the head of the operation, Tore Solberg, said about the incident.
The gunman succumbed to his injuries at the hospital where he had been treated.
