Norwegian Police Recommend Postponing LGBT Events After Oslo Shooting

© AFP 2023 / TERJE PEDERSENYoung people mourn at a crime scene in central Oslo, Norway, on June 25, 2022, in the aftermath of a shooting outside pubs and nightclubs. -
Young people mourn at a crime scene in central Oslo, Norway, on June 25, 2022, in the aftermath of a shooting outside pubs and nightclubs. - - Sputnik International, 1920, 27.06.2022
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Norwegian police have recommended that all Pride events across the country, including LGBT parade in Oslo, be postponed following the deadly shooting in an Oslo LGBT nightclub, Norwegian police head Benedicte Bjornland said on Monday.
"The police clearly recommend postponing today's Pride event in Oslo, as well as any other Pride events in other parts of the country, until further notice," Bjornland said in a statement published by the police.
According to the statement, the Police Directorate and the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) will also evaluate the actions of police officers during the nightclub incident.
Norwegian police officers stand guard in the streets of central Oslo between security tape lines, on June 25, 2022, after shots were fired outside the London pub, killing two people. - Sputnik International, 1920, 25.06.2022
Norway's Intel Service Treats Oslo Mass Shooting as 'Act of Islamist Terrorism'
On Saturday, the PST raised the terrorist threat level to "extraordinary" following the overnight shooting at a gay bar in Oslo that killed two people and injured over 20 others. PST head Roger Berg called the incident "an extreme Islamist terror act."
The perpetrator, a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin, was arrested on Sunday and charged with murder, assassination attempt and organizing a terrorist attack.
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