Storting candidate Trygve Lyshagen Tømmerås was released and released from the police station in Oslo at 05-Saturday morning.
Along with 57 other environmental activists, most of them affiliated with the group Extinction Rebellion, were he was arrested at the intersection Torggata / Hausmanns gate in central Oslo at 7pm on Friday.
Activists blocked the central intersection with a truck in a marker for new climate policy. Several chained to the truck and were cut loose. The politician was not among the chained.
Here, MDG-Trygve is taken by the police
Tømmerås (24), the second candidate for the Green Party in Telemark in the parliamentary elections in two weeks, had decided to adopt a fine.
It has attracted wide attention and debate that a candidate for the country’s legislative national assembly went into such a form of action with a self-declared purpose to be arrested.
– Had nothing to adopt
– I told the police that I will adopt a fine. It is a natural consequence if I have broken Norwegian law. But there was no interrogation, and there was no fine. Then I had nothing to decide, Tømmerås told Dagbladet the following evening.
According to the MDG politician himself, the police’s explanation was that fines will arrive in the mail via official channels.
– Those arrested without Norwegian citizenship or Norwegian address would be given priority with a specific fine there and then, I was told.
6,000 kroner
About the sizes of fines that were presented the same night for illegal action, Tømmerås says:
– I talked to some Swedes outside the police station. I understood that they had received a fine of 6,000 kroner each. But I do not know if it applied to everyone. There was a lot of chaos and people outside the police station early in the morning. About 20-30 sympathizers waited with food and welcomed us out.
Extinction Rebellion has throughout the week carried out climate actions in the capital.
In total, fines and fines to the group’s members now amount to NOK 1.5 million. 116 activists have been arrested, writes E24.
Tømmerås himself made the morning train to the university University of Southeast Norway in Bø in Telemark.
There he continued on Saturday with a master’s thesis in nature management.
MDG: No reactions
The Green Party will not react to its parliamentary candidate.
MDG: Does not distance itself
It says party spokesman Rasmus Hansson to Dagbladet. He is himself the party’s second candidate for the Storting in Oslo.
– It’s his personal choice. As a party, we neither condemn nor support civil disobedience. He behaved completely according to the book, and we believe that posterity will have greater respect for Tømmerås than for Erna Solberg’s and other politicians’ evasion of climate policy, says Hansson.
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