Robber, Goldsmith | For fear of being exposed as a thief: – He was under pressure to commit robbery

OSLO DISTRICT COURT (Nettavisen): This is how he describes himself, a 19-year-old from Venezuela who is on trial in the Oslo District Court for two armed robberies.

The first one in Bergen

I saw one in Oslo.

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Pressed by gay rumours

It is not often that an armed robber claims that he was pressured to commit a robbery, but in the criminal case that took place in the Oslo district court last week, nothing seems impossible.

At least if we are to believe the 19-year-old accused of the two robberies in Bergen and Oslo.

When asked why he and a friend came all the way from Venezuela to Norway, the same explanation that several foreigners give when they have to explain themselves as defendants in a District Court Oslo:

They wanted to see the northern lights.

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When asked why there was a robbery all of a sudden, and not the northern lights, the 19-year-old says that it was a friend who suddenly pushed him.

If he was not involved in the robbery, the friend is said to have threatened to expose the 19-year-old as gay among his family and friends in Venezuela.

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Great values

The companion has escaped, but the 19-year-old woman was caught at Gardermoen. With jewels from both the robbery in Bergen and from the robbery against the David-Andersen jeweler’s shop on Karl Johans gate in Oslo.

The 19-year-old said that his friend had already taken most of the jewelry from the Van Bergen jewelry store robbery in Bergen, where the proceeds were close to NOK 350,000.

Regarding the David-Andersen jewelry store robbery in Oslo, where the money was just over NOK 200,000, the same 19-year-old was arrested in Gardermoen with the entire amount of the robbery on him.

It was Saturday 13th April this year. A little more than six months later, the case against the 19-year-old comes before the court, without the police having found the alleged friend who is supposed to be pressured him into the robbery.

A verdict in the case against the 19-year-old man from Venezuela can be expected within a few days.

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