Overgrepssiktet Ap-politician resigns from all positions – NRK

An Ap-politician from Hordaland was Thursday ” I four weeks, charged with sexual assault against several children.

the Case is about the pornography, according to court berammingsliste before the first fengslingsmøtet 13. October. After what NRK understands, is a case about abuse over the internet.

– He has not been together with someone, ” says the man’s defender Ms Keller-Fløystad to NRK.

the Court has laid down referatforbud, and Keller-Fløystad will neither comment on the content of the indictment, or whether or not the client her, you acknowledge straffskyld. She says, however, that the man is cooperating with police, and that he is characterized by the indictment.

– He has it heavily, ” says the defender.

– having regard to the investigation I can’t comment on the case, ” says politiadvokat Jane Ringset Heltne to BT, which first reported fengslingsforlengelsen.

writing letters to family

the Man, sitting in a municipal council in Hordaland, illuminated, shortly after the issue came up that he wanted to withdraw from all positions in the Labour party.

the Man communicated this through a letter to the family, and the information was viderebrakt the party’s local branch. It tells the group leader for Ap in the relevant municipal council to the Norwegian broadcasting corporation.

I got to know of the family that he had said that he would resign from the obligations inherent, ” says the group leader.

group leader and the rest of the party has been given very little information in the matter. The same has the man’s family, tells the group leader.

I don’t know anything other than what has been in the newspaper. It does not family either. They have not known anything about this, and was completely unaware until he was imprisoned, says the group leader.

– the Police have put a lid on the case

the Man was first imprisoned 13. October. The board of directors in Hordaland Party was shortly after informed of the matter of lokallaget, but has so far not taken any.

the Man will formally resign from their positions in the next kommunestyremøte.

– Currently, there are not effected, but he has said that he will withdraw, and it does not come we to oppose us, ” says another central Ap-politician in the municipality.

the Reactions in the political environment and the local community in the municipality have been strong, although the police have been very sparse with information about what the man is charged with.

– It is clear that this of course is something that is spoken about. In the beginning we leave the matter in the account, in anticipation of that we should know more. But we have not confirmed anything. The message we have received is that police have put a lid on the case, says the man’s politikerkollega.