Zaniar Matapour (44) was arrested by the police shortly after the shooting on 25 June last year, and has since been in custody and charged with terrorism.
Recently, he has been locked up in a ward with a particularly high level of security at Ullersmo prison.
Part of the reason for this is that the Correctional Service believes that the 44-year-old is trying to recruit inmates. And that inmates are planning to attack prison staff.
This is revealed in a recent ruling from the Oslo District Court.
Defense attorney Marius Dietrichson now warns that they will appeal the case.
– We are satisfied that the court agrees with us that the court must be able to test the necessity of the isolation. Both the police, prosecution and correctional services disagreed with that, he says to NRK.
He calls the ruling “deficient”.
– The law’s requirement that isolation be the last resort has not been considered.
In the district court last week, Dietrichson argued that the isolation of Matapour in prison is against his human rights. He did not succeed in this.
Suspect he is recruiting inmates
Matapour was transferred from Halden prison to Kongsvinger prison in May, the ruling states.
This summer, however, the Correctional Service wanted Matapour to be transferred to a particularly high-security unit at Ullersmo. He was transferred here in October.
He had already been isolated due to a violent incident in prison, and the Correctional Service writes in a statement that the isolation is due to his behavior in prison:
“Due to observations made by the prison and the charge, we find it likely that the accused has affiliation with an organized criminal environment with radical Islamists. We suspect that he is trying to recruit inmates and forge ties with like-minded people, and that this increases the risk of a new incident taking place,” says the setting referred to in the ruling.
In another decision from October, which the ruling also refers to, it is stated that the Correctional Service is concerned about the employees’ safety.
According to the ruling, Matapour has been involved in two violent incidents in prison this summer.
In the first incident, he allegedly attacked another inmate who suffered facial injuries as a result of the incident. In the second incident, Matapour allegedly “went to the ground” as a result of being pushed or punched.
Defense attorney Dietrichson is, however, quoted in the ruling that Matapour in the one incident is to be considered offended. He also believes that it is “not probable” that Matapour has tried to recruit inmates.
Complaints about sentencing conditions
On Friday last week, Matapour himself appeared in the Oslo District Court in connection with a detention meeting.
This is the first meeting he has attended since the dramatic arrest in central Oslo in June last year.
The reason why he appeared himself was to complain about the conditions under which he is serving time. Matapour’s defender, Dietrichson, called the conditions of the sentencing “inhumane”.
– He is deeply isolated in a way that we are not used to in the Norwegian prison regime. It must stop immediately, Dietrichson told NRK last week.
Together with the terrorist-accused client, Dietrichson demanded that the complaints about the sentencing relationship should be dealt with judicially. The question was dealt with in the Oslo District Court on Monday.
The district court therefore believes that Matapour’s sentencing conditions are not contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights, as Dietrichson stated.
He will be jailed for four new weeks with letter and visit control.
2023-11-06 16:50:24
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