Police have taken control of a Norwegian man in his 30s who casually threatened people with a knife on Friday evening in the area around Aleksander Kiellands Plass and St. Hanshaugen.
Police called PLIVO – ongoing life-threatening violence – in connection with the incident. They have no information that anyone was injured.
– There have been reports of threats against several people, and to us they look like innocent third parties. So we are faced with a potential for mass casualties or multiple casualties, which was the basis for PLIVO, operations director Bjørn Gunnar Nysæter tells TV 2.
Photo: Fraud Sunde
Police are asking witnesses who saw the crash and victims who were threatened or potentially injured to contact police.
– We have reason to believe there are more of them than we have been in contact with. We understand that they want to get away from where it happened. We want people who have seen this and been exposed to threats to get in touch, says the operations manager.
– We received a message from a driver that he had met a man on a pedestrian crossing and this man pulled a knife in his direction, continues Nysæter.
– The reporter further noted that the man stopped at other people on the street, pulled out the knife and explained it as an attack on a person.
A large amount of resources have been invested in the mission to gain control over the perpetrator, the director of operations further informs.
– It is clear that there has been talk of concrete situations with knife threats, and we start from there too. Now it’s too early to tell what we’ll conclude, says Nysæther.
Police currently believe there is no reason to believe there is a danger to the public. Therein lies the fact that “they have no reason to believe that there are more potential perpetrators.”
The operations manager says that he confiscated a knife in connection with the arrest, that it is too early to say anything about the arrestee’s motive and that the person in question is well known to the police from before.
Photo: Martin Solhaug Standal / NTB
