The Moscow correspondent of NRK, Gro Holm was interrupted during a live report on Dagsrevyen on Saturday night.
The longtime reporter went live several times for the state channel, and now Holm tells Dagbladet how she experienced the situation that caused the film to end in a slightly unusual way.
– I tend to go out early to go live on TV so I have time to set up the gear and get everything ready, explains Holm.
But a little problem arose on Saturday before she was supposed to report home to the Norwegian people. This meant that the choice of location did not go as she had anticipated.
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The 64-year-old says she was initially on track to get to where she planned to shoot. But when she was in the taxi on the street, something happened. The driver left.
– I think he was really confused for a while before he gave the message that we had to stop, says Holm.
The man who drove the taxi suffered from diabetes and felt faint during the journey. Holm and the taxi driver then began the search for sugar.
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– So we had to find the chocolate, he explains.
– Risky
This meant that Holm would be too late to go to the original location from which he was supposed to report.
So he had to find a new place.
– I couldn’t stay on the freeway, because it would be too noisy, says Holm.
And the choice therefore fell on a parking lot outside a shopping center. A place he actually needed permission to shoot from. But Holm started reporting at home.
Holm commented on the blast that hit the bridge from mainland Russia, across the Kerch Strait and the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula on Saturday.
– Now the police here have prevented me from speaking further, but in any case it is very incomprehensible to anyone who knows how this could have happened, said Holm on live TV
In front of Dagbladet, she clarifies that it was not the police who interrupted her, but a guard.
– I turned off the camera and then we moved on.
– Unpleasant
Holm says she experienced the situation as completely non-dramatic.
– It is unfortunate that things intersect and that you do not have peace and quiet to do the intended work, but it was not a threatening situation, he stressed.
The Moscow correspondent says that it is not only in Russia that this can happen. She was also a correspondent in the United States, where there are similar rules requiring permission to film on private land.
– I knew it was a little risky to film from the parking lot, Holm admits.
The NRK reporter can also say that things went well with the taxi driver.
