On Wednesday 31 March, 63-year-old Svein Ingar Håkonsen was found killed with a bullet hole in his head.
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When Kripos soon presents its annual overview of murders in 2021, Håkonsen’s case will not be mentioned.
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The retired taxi driver from Sandefjord was murdered abroad.
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The Norwegian authorities have neither an overview of ordinary citizens who are killed outside Norway’s borders, nor established routines for following up the investigation in the country where the crime took place.
A survey conducted by Aftenbladet shows that at least 87 Norwegian civilians have been killed since the year 2000 without the killings being registered in any Norwegian statistics. The survey reveals that more than every tenth murder that affects relatives in Norway is never taken into account by the Norwegian authorities.
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