Man Suffers Lingering Injuries After Being Repeatedly Hit by Policeman: A Recent Incident in Kongsberg

– There are some physical injuries that still linger. It becomes difficult to train, work and function properly in everyday life.

That’s what Kevin Simensen said in Friday’s Dagsnytt 18 broadcast NRK.

The incident he was exposed to in October last year has been widely discussed in recent days.

Dagbladet published a video on Wednesday showing a policeman in Kongsberg hitting Simensen repeatedly. Comrade Kristian Teigen (26) was beaten with a telescopic baton.

Going through trauma treatment

The police officer is accused of having practiced violence against another person, and of having exercised public authority and grossly negligently breached his duty.

Simensen says in the TV broadcast that he is largely affected by the incident in October last year. He has been undergoing trauma treatment through the District Psychiatric Center (DPS) since January.

– I was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress after that, he says.

– Attacked from behind

Lawyer John Christian Elden took over this evening as defender for the policeman who is accused of violence and breach of duty after the much-discussed episode outside Esso Deli de Luca in Kongsberg on the night of 30 October. He confirms that himself.

Simensen and his friends had been on the town in Kongsberg one October night last year and were to be picked up at a petrol station.

Here they again met a Securitas guard who had banished one of them from a nightclub earlier in the evening, together with a police officer.

The surveillance video from the scene shows that Kevin Simensen (26) ended up in a scuffle with the police officer. Simensen says that he was attacked from behind while he was standing with his hands in his pockets.

The images show blows from a policeman with a clenched hand and a telescopic baton. Simensen estimates that he was hit around 16 times.

– Unacceptable

– No one would believe me

The two 26-year-olds were themselves charged with violence and put in solitary confinement. The two are still charged with violence against the police officer, even though the video shows the sequence of events.

The Bureau has also established that errors were made in the police report written by the police officers. The police have also acknowledged that they also deleted video evidence in the case.

– If the surveillance videos hadn’t been there, no one would have believed me, Simensen recently told Dagbladet.