Indicted for beating children under Koran reading – Dagbladet.no

Indicted for beating children under Koran reading – Dagbladet.no

The extremist Islamist Arfan Bhatti meetings today in Oslo District Court, accused of having turned his six year old son and eleven year old daughter while he heard them Koran reading

According to the indictment struck 38-year-old two children repeatedly in the face, head and back with hand and a paper towel holder in metal while he heard them in the reading of the Koran from fall 2011 to spring of 2012.

The indictment also includes violence against police during arrest in Oslo in April 2012.

– He refuses culpability such indictment was withdrawn, said Bhatti defends John Christian Elden NTB just before the trial started at 09.

– Witness to Violence

children, according to the indictment also have been witnessed Bhatti beat his wife so she got a bleeding cut in the head. Police accused Bhatti of violence against his wife, as well as several other conditions, but these cases are dismissed.

Bhatti estranged wife has in interviews told that he must have been mad at her because he thought she did not teach the children the Koran. She and the children now live at Hidden link.

– He’s obviously happy that most of the charges are dropped and contesting the claim assault of two children, said Bhatti defends John Christian Elden to NTB.

Convicted several times

Arfan Qadeer Bhatti is a Norwegian citizen of Pakistani origin. Everything that a young teenager, he was associated with the criminal youth gang Young Guns in Oslo, and his first contact with the police was at age 13.

He is convicted several times, including other threats, blackmail and violence. In 1998, he was sentenced to preventive after shooting a person under a cash collection missions.

In 2001, he escaped to Pakistan during a leave, and remained religious. He later came home and serving a sentence completion, and when he was released in 2002 he went openly support for Osama bin Laden and the terrorist network al-Qaeda.

Synagogue Attacks

Police Security Service adopted early interest Bhatti and put him under surveillance. This helped that he was convicted of complicity when the Jewish synagogue in Oslo was fired in 2006, but he was acquitted of the charges point about terrorist planning.

Bhatti traveled to Pakistan in late 2012 and was reported missing by family in January 2013. In the autumn after he was arrested and jailed in Pakistan but was set free again in August fjo r.

Police feared escape

38-year-old was arrested when he returned voluntarily to Norway in January this year, but the police did not Court ruling remand.

Police requested suspensive effect, and Bhatti had therefore still be imprisoned while Court of Appeal treated the appeal. Where was the conclusion the same as in court, and Bhatti were released.

It is set two days to family violence case against Bhatti in Oslo District Court.

(NTB).