– Millehaugen may have flown as “anyone” – VG

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On Wednesday afternoon, Stig Millehaugen, convicted of double murder, did not return to Trondheim prison after leave. The police have managed to place him on a flight from Værnes to Oslo Airport, and then on the Flytoget to Oslo S. Millehaugen is wanted internationally.

There are no regulations that require that ID be checked when entering security at Norwegian airports.

– In theory, Millehaugen could have flown as “anyone” without anyone wanting to check the lack of correspondence between ticket and ID document, says security expert Kjell-Ola Kleiven to VG.

Kleiven is chairman of the board of Risk Information Group, which sells consulting services in areas such as risk and safety analysis.

– May have come a long way

The authorities may introduce ID checks in exceptional cases, such as during pandemics or after terrorist attacks. In 2011, control was introduced for a week after Anders Behring Breivik attacked the government building and AUF’s summer camp on Utøya.

– Internationally, there is control outside Schengen, and then you know for sure who is on board the plane. This also makes it easier to check against, among other things, Interpol’s wanted lists, says Kleiven.

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Millehaugen was only wanted after failing to show up after leave. He was on leave from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday. but never met up again in prison.

– He may have come a long way before that time. After that, the airports will recognize him by his appearance in order to be able to catch him, due to a lack of face-recognizing technology and ID control, says the chairman of the board.

– Usually not passport control

Avinor’s press officer, Anna Langhammer, tells VG that they check that the people who escape within the security check have tickets or other access cards. VG has asked Avinor if there is face recognition technology at Norwegian airports, but has not received an answer to this.

Avinor does not have the task of tracking or collecting data about people traveling from or to our airports. As Avinor is not part of the justice sector, we do not have access to overviews of wanted persons until the police make such information known to the public, says Langhammer.

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The police have the border control authority and responsibility for the exercise of border surveillance and the entry and exit control of persons.

– Within the Schengen area, there is usually no passport control. For gate and boarding, the airlines are responsible for control, and they must answer what applies to their routines, says the press officer.

The Schengen area consists of 26 European countries.

Norwegian’s senior communications adviser, Eline Hyggen Skari, tells VG that they basically do not have ID control when boarding within Schengen, unless the authorities in the country of arrival require it.

SAS has not answered VG’s questions. VG has also been in contact with the Norwegian Police Directorate, but they did not have the opportunity to answer our questions on Thursday.

– Correct assessment

Millehaugen has been in prison all his adult life after being convicted of car thefts, burglary and armed robbery.

In 2012, he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the law’s most severe punishment, for premeditated murder of Young Guns leader Mohammad “Jeddi” Javed. The minimum term was set at ten years. He has always denied criminal guilt, and has served about ten years in Trondheim prison.

– There are probably many different views on it. He has been here for almost ten years. We have made assessments with regard to leave, which we believe still holds true today. Then what has happened has happened, and of course you see things with different eyes when you know it. But we still believe it was the right assessment to give him leave, says prison manager Egil Gabrielsen in Trondheim prison to VG.

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