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| Norway: Explosives found at anti-NATO protest HQ |
| 2007-04-27 |
| Operation leader Even Jørstad confirmed that police had moved in and raided the Blitz house in downtown Oslo in the first hour of Friday. "We are in, more than that we are not saying," Jørstad told Aftenposten.no at 12:50 a.m. A police press release announced that they had carried out a search on the Blitz headquarters. "The background for the decision was that the police have reason to believe that there have been plans to use explosives in connection with the NATO meeting of Foreign Ministers in Oslo," the release said. "These explosives were produced and stored at the Blitz house. The raid and search was carried out to secure evidence," police said. Police field operation leader Thor Langli told Aftenposten.no that they entered through the front door as the house was empty at the time. Langli said the decision was made after Blitz and police clashed in connection with a protest demonstration linked to the NATO meeting in Oslo Thursday and Friday. "We have found over 70 crates of firecrackers and projectiles in the house," Langli said. The projectiles were primarily stones and bricks. Aftenposten includes several photos of the evidence collected. The explosives appear to be firecrackers and bottle rockets (so far). But other projectiles, potentially lethal, were carefully collected and organized. |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #2 Hey, what's a protest with a |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-04-27 16:27 |
| #1 These are not protests; these are attempts to constitute and arm a militia as a parallel power to the state. These should constitute hanging offenses though, given the state of the world, I expect the organizers will all get graduate scholarships instead. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-04-27 15:41 |