After sitting almost half a year in custody, came court Friday that Krekar, or Najumuddin Faraj Ahmad, may be detained in custody for seven more weeks.
Police Inspector Vegård Roda says he hopes the trial of the profiled Islamist should get started by incarceration period at the beginning of October.
Prosecutors justified their detention with the risk of recurrence, meaning that Krekar will again make statements of the kind he gave in an interview with NRK in February.
– Purely politically
Friday arrived Krekar right premises just after 10 o’clock in his usual attire. He greeted his defender Brynjar Meling, and was in surprisingly good spirits. When the judge asked if he had any comment to that police would keep him imprisoned for nearly two months, said Krekar that he “of course” would covet his release.
– I consider this to be a purely political issue, said Krekar when he was asked if he had further comment.
Krekar himself believes his statements are protected by religion – and freedom of expression. This assessment is not shared by the Oslo District Court. In today’s ruling appears partly to his statements about the case against him is political.
“This shows that the accused did not recognize the law and judicial system, which experts Ranstorp also is built on,” said the ruling.
Ranstorp: – Krekar is clearly above the limit
The high-profile terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp have written an expert report on Mullah Krekar. Ranstorp not want to comment on the case, pointing out that he is an expert witness.
Thursday it was announced that Director of Public Prosecutions requesting that it be withdrawn charges against Krekar for incitement to criminal acts. It will be up to the prosecutor to consider whether Krekar also be prosecuted for threats.
The final charges against Krekar has been long in coming, partly because of Public Prosecutions has requested further investigation in the form of an expert report. This is written by the prolific terror researcher Magnus Ranstorp at Försvarshögskolan in Sweden.
A bland Mullah Krekar declared itself released when the remand hearing began Friday. Photo: Martin HW Zondag / NRK
The report was first aware August 4th. According to the prosecutor, Lieutenant Vegard Roda, has Ranstorp been asked to consider whether Krekar’s role in the extremist environment, in addition to the statements he made in the much-publicized interview with NRK earlier this year.
Ranstorp has concluded that Krekar’s statements are “clear across the border”, it emerged in court Friday.
– Hard to get someone to ask
According to Roda it has been difficult to get Norwegian experts to write a report about Krekar.
– It is problematic that none of them we asked would write such a report. We found when Ranstorp in Sweden, who agreed, said Roda in court.
He elaborates told NRK that the report sheds further light on the whole, and in this respect is an important part of evidence from the prosecution’s page.
Previously Brynjar Lia, who was then employed by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, written a similar report. In 2014 became the profiled Islamist Ubaydullah Hussain sentenced to prison for having made threats against Lia.
Opens appeals
After it became clear that the police was successful in that Krekar will remain in custody, said Krekar that he took time to think in terms of an appeal.
Meling explains that one will see if it is set a date for trial within the next two weeks, before one may anchor ruling.
– We have chosen to take time to think on the basis that the court has assumed that the case be scheduled during this detention period. Then fourteen days give us what we need time to see if it is indeed the case, says Meling, who “on the basis of experience ‘it hard to believe that there will be set a date for trial within two weeks.
Meling critical of NRK
Defender Brynjar Meling believes Krekar must be released, and said to NRK yesterday that Krekar already was in custody longer than any punishment. In court Friday reiterated Meling that he believes there is a danger of atonement, which prosecutors contests.
Meling was critical of NRK’s handling of the interview that is part of Public Prosecutions indictment. Meling believes Krekar got specific questions, knowing what Mullah Krekar came to say, and that NRK then published the most controversial and sensational statements.
Meling says he will request that the raw material will be distributed in conjunction with criminal case.
– Absolutely out of the question
– It is absolutely unacceptable for NRK to extradite feedstock, says news editor Stein Bjøntegård.
He notes that most of the interview already published, either on TV or online.
– We are not trying to keep anything significant from the audience, but it is important principle in Norwegian newsrooms that we will not disclose feedstock.
In the interview, which was broadcast in February this year, said Krekar that he would “send a gift” to whoever kills Kurdish Halmat Goran. Krekar was already in 2012 convicted for threats against Goran, who now lives at a secret address.
Goran has previously told NRK that he feels safer when Krekar is in prison.
In the interview NRK also said Krekar that he was “obviously was glad” for the terrorist attack on the editorial board of satire magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January this year. The following day, Krekar was arrested at his home in Toyen.
The reason that Krekar now being prosecuted for incitement to criminal acts is an interview with NRK from February this year.
The reason that Krekar now being prosecuted for incitement to criminal actions is an interview with NRK from February this year.
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