KONGSBERG (Dagbladet): Kevin Winness Simensen and Kristian Pablo Teigen are excited. The comrades do not hide that they are a little afraid, until the court is set in Buskerud district court in Kongsberg on Wednesday. Then the policeman who is accused of mistreating them sits on the dock.
– It is clear that it will be unpleasant to meet the policeman in court. But I look forward to getting justice, says Kevin Winness Simensen to Dagbladet.
Together with his friends Kristian Teigen and Markus Stormo, Simensen had been to the nightclub “Privaten” in Kongsberg, on the last Saturday evening in October last year.
Beat up
The birthday celebration ended in a nightmare. A watchman contacted the police, and accused one of his comrades of having made threats. After the three had left the club and were on their way home to Vestfossen, they went to the Esso station in the center of Kongsberg.
– SHOULD LOSE HIS JOB: Kristian Pablo Teigen (former), Kevin Winness Simensen and Marius Stormo believe the policeman should lose his job in the police. Photo: Bjørn Langsem / Dagbladet Show more
– There was a car waiting for us. But before we got into the car, I calmly walked over to the police car that was parked there. I had both hands in my pockets. Then all hell broke loose. One of the policemen attacked me from behind, threw me to the ground and started beating me, says Kevin Winness Simensen.
Video footage from the security cameras at the gas station shows how Simensen and Teigen are repeatedly beaten.
Here are the police officers’ own words
– I don’t know how many times he hit me with a clenched hand in the face and upper body. But the video footage shows that I was hit at least 15 to 20 times. I was also beaten with a telescopic baton several times, says Kevin Simensen.
Destroy evidence
The video footage also shows how Kristian Pablo Teigen is beaten with a telescopic baton, while he holds his hands above his head.
At the same time, Markus Stormo films the violence. The surveillance videos from the gas station also show how he is attacked. The videos to be presented in court also show that another police officer deletes the video recordings Stormo took.
This policeman has been fined NOK 12,000 for destroying evidence.
According to the Bureau, the police officer approved the submission.
Lawyer Morten Kjensli, who represents the aggrieved parties, has filed this submission and asked the Bureau for Police Affairs to change it.
DELETED EVIDENCE: The video shows how a police officer deleted evidence. Video: The Esso station at Kongsberg Show more
Kjensli has previously stated to Dagbladet that he perceives the policeman’s deletion of evidence as gross and that the policeman has opposed the judiciary by deleting the video recordings.
“Should be fired”
– It will of course be unpleasant to meet the policeman in court, but we look forward to getting justice, say Simensen and Teigen.
MISTREATED: – The policeman hit me repeatedly with a clenched hand and a telescopic baton, says Kevin Winness Simensen. Photo: Bjørn Langsem / Dagbladet Show more
Both believe the policeman is unfit to serve as a policeman.
– We hope that the police chief will take action and fire him. When you fly on and repeatedly strike with a clenched hand and knock loose with a telescopic baton to injure, then in our opinion you have no business in the police, says Teigen and is fully supported by Simensen.
– BURDEN: – This case has been a big burden for the victims, says aid lawyer Morten Kjensli. Photo: Bjørn Langsem / Dagbladet Show more
– We look forward to the case now coming before the court. This case has been a big burden for our clients – Simensen and Teigen, says lawyer Morten Kjensli, who, together with paralegal Ida Kristine Kolstad, appear as legal counsel for the victims in the criminal case against the policeman.
Ville gi bot
Head of prosecution investigations in the Bureau of Police Affairs, Marit Oliver Storeng, is the prosecutor in the case.
Storeng initially insisted that the police officer who is now indicted should receive a summons. A proposal he refused to accept. Then the head of the Special Unit, Terje Nybøe, turned the case into an indictment. The policeman was charged with assault. Which in turn prompted lawyer Morten Kjensli to complain about the indictment to the Attorney General.
TAUS: Prosecutor Marit Oliver Storeng, from the Bureau, will not comment on the police violence case before the court is set. Photo: Trym Mogen / Dagbladet@dagbladet.no>@dagbladet.no>@dagbladet.no>@dagbladet.no> Show more
Storeng did not wish to comment on the case to Dagbladet. In a text message she writes:
“The specialist unit does not wish to comment on our internal case management and the various assessments that have been made in this case. The main hearing in the case has been scheduled, and the assessments that have been made will possibly appear in connection with the correction.’
Silent policeman
After the Attorney General had assessed the case and studied the video evidence, the Bureau was ordered to charge the policeman with serious bodily harm. Something that will give the policeman a prison sentence, if the Buskerud district court finds him guilty after the serious indictment.
Neither the police officer nor his defender, lawyer John Christian Elden, want to comment on the case, before the legal proceedings start.
The lawyer has previously told Dagbladet that they are going for a full acquittal.
TUAS: Neither lawyer John Christian Elden, nor his client – the accused policeman – wants to say anything before the legal proceedings have started. Photo: Henning Lillegård / Dagbladet Show more
Buskerud District Court has set aside three days for the negotiations. Several police officers have been subpoenaed as witnesses. The public assistance lawyers have also summoned several witnesses who were spectators to the drama at the petrol station in Kongsberg, on the night of Sunday 30 October last year.
2023-06-27 20:53:44
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