When district court judge Anja Beck raised the court in Nedre Romerike district court on Friday, it completely took off on the channel that video-transmitted the case.
The audience that followed the trial against the former president of Satudarah MC’s Oslo branch, threw themselves into a verbal showdown and took over the broadcast.
– Fucking microphone gangsters, said a listener, before he continued to scold the other party.
Dagbladet does not reproduce the insults that fell in the text here, but an edited recording can be heard by watching the video in this case. Several of the accused are mentioned by name in the ongoing quarrel, but they are “beeped” in the audio recording.
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The digital transmission uses a technology similar to Teams or Zoom which are well-known meeting solutions in the Corona era. The sound can control which video image is displayed on the screen. A listener made so much noise that the image from his computer or mobile phone took over the broadcast so that the text “Satudarah on top!” Filled the screens in the courtroom.
The actors in the courtroom did not hear the quarrel in the broadcast. The judge turned down the volume in rooms when the court was raised, but everyone who watched the digital transmission had to wash their ears.
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Threats
Before the verbal fight, threats against the actors in court had already been a topic.
– This is very awkward, said Trygve Staff, when the fourth today in the trial against his client came to an end.
According to Staff, threatening and rude messages were sent to his client, a 36-year-old man from Oslo. The man was president of the international 1% club Satudarah’s Oslo branch, but claimed in court that he has recently resigned from the club. Along with four other people, he is charged with violence, threats and abduction of a man in his 20s.
– Cut with a knife. Forced to shower
Due to infection control considerations, only the five defendants, their lawyers, the victim’s assistance lawyer, a police lawyer and the public prosecutor are present in court.
Trials are basically open to the public and therefore the court sends video and audio from the negotiations to journalists and listeners. It is not allowed to film or record audio during a trial, but the technology presents certain challenges when listeners can film the screen without anyone being able to follow it. It became clear when Trygve Staff said that photos and films of his client had been published on social media.
– No longer a member of Satudarah
According to Staff, the text “The boss names the guys”, must have followed a post on social media.
– It’s not nice. The suspicion is that it is the aggrieved party that has posted this to blacken the accused, Staff told the court.
Hets
The victim in the case has told that he lives at a secret address after the incident where he was subjected to violence and abduction. When the man testified in the first days of the court, he said that both bribes and death threats were directed at him, in an attempt to get the man to change his testimony. The victim is also said to have been threatened during the chat related to the video transmission from the trial.
– They’re not men
According to public prosecutor Andreas Schei, who together with police attorney Christoffer Seyfarth is taking the case to the prosecution, the police followed what happened.
– We have heard from police who were inside the “video room”, that threats were made against victims in the case on the chat, but whether there were threats or more type of incitement, I do not know. I have not seen it myself, writes Schei, in an e-mail to Dagbladet.
New solution
Andreas Schei states that the court will take measures to limit unauthorized access to the video transmission in the future.
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– I perceive that there has been a lot of noise and at best junk chatting, possibly threats, in the video room. Also by people with a criminal record who probably could have been expelled in a physical court hearing, Schei writes.
On Friday, Dagbladet received a new link to the digital transfer of the case and knows that the court will try to weed out people who are not allowed to follow the case.
Dagbladet has sent several questions to Trygve Staff regarding the threats against his client, the 36-year-old, former president of Satudarah MC Oslo, but the profiled defense lawyer does not want to comment on the incident at this time.
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