Defense Lawyer Agrees Mental Illness Played Role In Norway Bow-and-Arrow Attack

The defense lawyer of a Danish citizen who shot arrows at people in Norway said Saturday that he agreed with the police, who believe the attack had a mental illness background

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th October, 2021) The defense lawyer of a Danish citizen who shot arrows at people in Norway said Saturday that he agreed with the police, who believe the attack had a mental illness background.

Fredrik Neumann told the Norwegian channel TV2 that he "agree with the preliminary conclusions and assessments that the police have made in the case.

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The Norwegian police said on Friday that Espen Andersen Braathen was suffering from a mental illness that apparently drove him to kill five people and injure three others in a shooting spree in the town of Kongsberg, southwest of Oslo.

The 37-year-old converted to islam and was known to police who suspected he might have been radicalized. He was taken to a medical facility after he was arrested and questioned by police on Wednesday.