“May 17th Celebrations in Norway Lead to Police Reports of Fights and Cancellations”

This afternoon, the police have their hands full in several places in the country, after the children’s trains and school events are over:

● The police in Bergen have received reports of several fights during the May 17 celebrations. Outside McDonald’s on Torgalmenningen, a person has had two teeth knocked out, reports say BA.

The cause is unknown.

– The perpetrator had left the scene when the patrol arrived. Victims are helped to get to the emergency room, Erik Loftesnes, operations manager in the West police district, told Dagbladet.

There have also been fights in Håkonsgaten behind Bergen Kino, Nygårdshøyden and Torget.

– There was no one left at Torget when we arrived, but there was blood on the ground, says Loftesnes.

In addition, the operations center has just received a report of an angry person in Olav Kyrres street.

The operations manager says that it was “really calm” until approx. at 4 p.m., when many messages came in at the same time.

– Do you have a theory as to why?

– It is obvious that the degree of intoxication has increased, but it is probably a coincidence that all these messages came at the same time.

Loftesnes emphasizes that the police have been prepared for 17 May.

– We have staffed up and are trying to be visible in the cityscape. No one should feel unsafe in the center of Bergen, he says.

● The Russian train in Sarpsborg has been cancelled. This is reported by Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad at 16:00 on 17 May.

The police justify it with security, according to the newspaper. Children and young people are said to have run between the Russian cars in search of Russian cards.

According to Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad, the Russian has been told to leave the cars where they are, and take the rest of the route.

The leader of the 17 May committee, Lars Erik Antonsen, confirms the cancellation.

– Due to large crowds and the fact that individual trains have not complied with the guidelines for running the train, the police and Sarpsborg municipality, as the responsible organizer, have interrupted the train at the bus terminal, he says to Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad.

● The police in Follo have already in the early afternoon of 17 May received many assignments concerning intoxicated young people under the age of 13-14.

Young people of this age fight and drink in various places in the district, according to the police.

– It is requested that parents have some control over where the hopefuls are and about their condition, the police in East sign Twitter.