A 27-year-old man is in court in Drammen this week, charged with making numerous threats against various individuals, state institutions and private companies. He even threatened to bomb Parliament and send a torpedo after one of Marius Borg Høiby’s former girlfriends.
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that the bomb threat against Parliament came last year via four emails to the prime minister’s office, and it prompted an evacuation. He’s also charged with trying to extort billionaire businessmen Kjell Inge Røkke and Stein Erik Hagen and threatening Nora Haukland, one of the former girlfriends of Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s troubled son Høiby. The defendant claimed he’d send a torpedo after Haukland if she didn’t withdraw her complaints against Høiby.
“I did it to scare her,” the defendant testifed in court on Tuesday. “I was irritated that someone in the royal family faced punishment.” He later apologized for scaring her, said he wanted some “celebrity friends” and even wished her a merry Christmas at the time.
He’s also charged with sending threats to Norwegian tax authorities, health officials in Bergen, the City of Drammen and the large Oslo-based food producer Orkla. He’s been diagnosed with what court officials called a slight mental health disturbance but has been determined capable of standing trial.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
