OSLO: A Norwegian court placed three men in provisional detention on Saturday on suspicion of planning attacks against the US and Israeli embassies in Oslo, news agency NTB reported. The court set the provisional custody period at one month for two of the suspects, one of whom is of Pakistani origin, and at two weeks for the third. Authorities did not reveal the identities of the men, aged between 26 and 29 years, whom they also suspect of spraying a synagogue with bullets last week. No one was hurt in the incident.
The three were arrested on Thursday together with a fourth man, a Norwegian of Turkish origin, who was not placed in provisional detention but against whom other lines of investigation may be launched, NTB said. None of the three has been charged. All have denied the accusations. |