In 2012 traveled the profiled Islamist Arfan Bhatti to Pakistan, crossing the border into Syria from there. Where he should have fought against government forces of President Bashar al-Assad. Yesterday he came home to Norway, and was immediately arrested.
Bhatti is charged under Penal Code section 219 to threats and violence against a former spouse. He has been wanted by Norwegian police since 15 February 2013.
Would never settle in Norway again
Since January 2013 he should have stayed in Pakistan, where he was convicted 6 years in prison for having contact with the Taliban.
Norwegian Pakistan he was released from prison in August 2014, and according to his lawyer John Christian Elden he has since then stayed with his family in Pakistan.
In November last year he told VG that he would never settle in Norway again, since “Islam does not allow Muslims to settle in the infidel’s land.”
Elden: – He will if Police insist on it
– Arfan Bhatti would a trip to Norway to visit his family. Like him, they are Norwegian nationals. Then he would return to Pakistan, writes Elden an SMS Aftenposten.
He writes that the Norwegian-Pakistani not thinking about moving back to Norway.
– At Gardermoen he was greeted by the Oslo police, who would speak with him about a charge from 2012, so he is obviously if the police insist on it, writes Elden.
He also says that the police have not attempted on achieving contact with Bhatti since 2012 and says the arrest appears to be “slightly undertaken. “
Elden: – Police fear that Bhatti to leave the country
Oslo police told Aftenposten that Arfan Bhatti going to questioning during Thursday morning. The interrogation only applies violence case he is charged with, and they will not make any assessment of the security risk Bhatti poses.
Attorney John Christian Elden told Aftenposten that the hearing shall mainly revolve around evasion when police fear that Bhatti should leave the country.
Oslo police will not say anything about his being imprisoned, or whether there is talk about giving him notification if he does not get it.
– It gets very hypothetical He is with us because of a charge, and that is the case we will talk to him about, says communication Roar Hanssen Oslo Police Aftenposten.
Hanssen will not say whether police coordinates with the Police Security Service (PST) in this case.
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