A reported rape in a Norwegian hotel last night may have a motive!

A 32 year old man is a suspect in rape case that is reported to have taken place friday night in Radisson SAS Caledonien hotell, Kristiansand, a town in southern Norway.

The woman supposedly raped is 21 years old. She reported the case to the police friday 02.00 am.

When she went to the police, she informed them the man who supposedly raped her was still in the hotel room.

The head of operations Bjarne Bakken at Agder police district told the media that the police rushed to the scene and arrested the man.

It is reported that the man accepts they had sex but refuses that it was rape. He has told the police that it was consentual sex between them.

We question the motive in this case!

If the 21 year old woman was raped, could the man still remain in the hotel room until the police went there to arrest him?

If the woman was raped in the hotel room, did she shout for help from the hotel personnel?

In what state did she leave the room and the hotel? Did they fight? And if so, could the man feel safe to remain in the room when the woman left?

Because if the rape took place and there was a fight between the two, the man could not be comfortable to remain in the room.

Or was there a promise to the woman that the man did not fulfill, a promise that may have caused her to get angry, changing her mind, then causing the consentual sex to become rape and to revenge, report it to the police on her way home.

There are many questions that can be asked in a case like this. Why did the woman go up to the man’s hotel room so late at night if they had no deal between them, a deal which might have gone wrong?

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN.

africanpress@chello.no

Source.ANB.25

Norwegian teacher given a 30-days sentence for “marihuanarising” a student!

A former 47 year old school teacher has been sentenced to 30 days probation after neing found guilty of an offence.

He was taken to court for having given “marihuana” to a student.

When appearing before the magistrate, the former teacher admitted to have commited the offence but told the court he wanted to make the student feel bad after smoking marihuana in an effort to scare him off his continued drug-use.

Delivering judgement, magistrate Rannveig Gramstad in Karmsund court is reported to have concluded that there was no question the cigarette the former teacher gave to the student contained marihuana.

The 47 year old man had first told the police court that he had smoked the drug 3-4 time before and never used it anymore.

When appearing before the magistrate, he chose to change his statement denying what he had told the police earlier.

By changing his statement in court he wanted to convince the court of his innocence and avoid being sentenced.

When he was tested in february the results were positive indicating he used the drug.

This is a very serious case. When teachers, supposed to be role models for their students, give them drugs, such teachers have nothing to do in the classrooms and must be kept away from students.

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN.

africanpress@chello.no

Source:ANB.25

Christmas moody 30 “ate themselves” to diarea and stomach pain!”

The media in Norway has reported that a group of 30 people who had an early Christmas party in Molde Rica hotel ate themselves to diarea and stomach pain. The food poisoning caused a lot of discomfort to the group a day after the party.

During the investigations to find out what or who caused the poisoning of the guests, the hotel has managed to get one suspect, “the rice mixed with ice-cream.”

The Norwegian Food Control Authority  department administrator Mr Geir Grønningsæter Gjul has told the media that the 30 people who were attacked by the “rice-ice-cream mix” were among 35 people in the party at the hotel.

The Food Authority has ordered the hotel to throw the remaining stock of the rice-Ice-cream mix.

The Hotel director Mr Peter S. Bolte, says he regrets the incident and that he takes what happened very seriously.

He told the media that his hotel is serious in business. They will look into their routines to ensure the same does not happen again.

It is this time of the year in Norway that people have early Christmas parties in restaurants and hotels. The tradition goes on because during Christmas time Norwegians prefer to have lonely Christmas in their own homes or small family gathering to celebrate alone and give each other gifts.

In many other countries, you will find that on Christmas day, neighbours and friends party together in large numbers because they enjoy the social bit of the Christmas and not gifts only.

It is not known whether the hotel will compensate those affected by refunding their money or simply by changing the menue and get them in a new Christmas mood.

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN.

africanpress@chello.no

Source:ANB.25

Norwegian handball women team “rolled over” the German team!

Norwegian women handball national team had no difficulties winning over the German team.

The teams met today in Gjøvik, a remote town outside Oslo. Norway won the game by scoring 34 to 28 goals.

The goals came easy in the first half. With experienced players, among them Gro Hammerseng, Else Marthe Sørlie Lybekk, Anette Hovind Johansen and the goalkeeper Kari Grimsbø Aalvik, the Norwegian team had no difficulties taking on the German team.

The goalkeeper told the media that the game gave added experienced to the team on their way forward to the European championship games that is ahead.

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN.

africanpress@chello.no

Source:ANB.25

Well-known Norwegian women sexually harassed!

Norwegian high profiled women have over the years, been sexually harassed by a man they claim has been sending them letters and postcards about sex.

One prominent member of parliament Marit Nybakk is quoted in the media complaining that she has received the letters and cards from a man for a period of 10 years.

Many other women have now come forward complaining of the same problem.

The Norwegian police have confirmed that they have received complaints from the women and will investigate their complaints.

The letters and cards the women receive angers them alot. Some of them wonder whether the man who sends them the letters is someone they know, someone they socialise with or even their closest neighbour.

The parliamentarian has told the media that the man picks women who have been in the media as his tackets.

She calls whoever does that, “a monster” who only chooses well known women in order to harass them.

However, there is one thing we have to remember here. When the women complain that there is a man sexually harassing them by sending letters and cards we question why these women have concluded it is a man that does so.

Lesbian turned on? 

We know that Norway accepts homosexuality and lesbianism. Therefore, we cannot rule out the fact that the sender who is sexually harassing the women could be a “lesbian woman” who gets excited when she notices beautiful top profiled woman appearing in the media day in and day out, some dressed in a manner drawing attention to themselves.

For the harassed women to pick the harasser to be a man is discrimination, because they are not sure who sends them the sexy letters and cards. Here, it seems like women only connect men to bad things like sexual harassment. They have to understand that the harasser could as well be their own closest female friends.

The police should, therefore, not only focus their investigation on men, but also women!

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN.

africanpress@chello.no

Source:ANB.25

The Pope’s visit to Turkey next week is full of controversy!

The Pope while on his visit to Turkey next week might visit a mosque.

This will be the first visit to be made by this Pope to a muslim country since taking over as the leader of the Catholics after the death of his predecessor.

Vitican spokesman was quoted on friday by the media saying the Pope will most probably visit Istanbuls blue mosque.

The Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan was also quoted friday confirming he will meet the Pope if his own schedule allows it.

There are speculations that the prime minister may wish to avoid meeting the Pope because he had earlier criticised Islam, calling it a violent religion.

His words at the time sparked anger in the Muslim world forcing the Pope to apologise.

His visit to Turkey is therefore controversial. It has been reported that a group of Turkey’s nationalists occupied Hagia church in the past week protesting against the Pope’s visit to the country.

But the Prime Minister has stated that he looks at the visit as a good thing in the right direction towards good alliance between civilizations.

It has been confirmed that the Pope will meet the Turkey’s President and deputy prime minister during the visit.

European media views the visit by the Pope as an attempt to cool down tempers due to his earlier criticism on Islam and to create a good understanding between the two religions, “his and Islam.”

It is speculated that the reason for the Pope’s visit to the Mosque is to show respect to Islam as a religion worth respecting.

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN.

africanpress@chello.no

Source: ANB.25

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Khat gives a social satisfaction, and yet Norway has criminalised it!

Khat, popularly known as”Miraa” by the Somali people is criminalised in Norway.

In Somalia, Kenya and many countries in Africa, Khat is allowed to be chewed by those who use it to satisfy their social needs.

It is also viewed, especially by the Somali people, as an important contributor to social satisfaction. People gather, talk and chew together during their free time.

As we say, “NOKIA” connects people, we also say, “Khat” connects people socially.

Those who use it should be respected and not criminalised because Khat does not make them dangerous at all!

In the United Kingdom, Khat is also allowed and it is believed this is accepted in the UK because the people there understand Africans socially having been a colonial power!

Why does Norway fear allowing Khat if it makes a group of people socially happy and not a danger to the larger society.

Is Norway refusing to allow it because they do not chew it or is it because they do not understand the needs of an African man and woman?

In Norway, there is a policy that what your neighbour does not have, you should not have! That way it is said one preserves equality in the neighbourhood. Could the reason therefore be, that if they allow the Somali people to chew and they themselves do not, then they are missing something on the equality issue?

In Kenya, the Kenya-Somalis and other Somalis from the region have chewed Khat for many years and yet that has not made them street violent anywhere!

Norwegian politicians should be more mature and allow this group of people their right-full place in the Norwegian society.

In Africa, we do not understand why the brown cheese, (”Brun Ost” and “Flat brød”) and the flat bread is so important to the Norwegian tradition. But they are let through airports with the two items because it makes the Norwegians to feel socially  and traditionally accepted wherever they live when outside their own country.

When a Norwegian is travelling to other countries where there are Norwegians, in most cases, they carry with them the “Brun Ost and Flat Brød” and likewise when some Somali people travel to a country where there are other Somalis that they know, they traditionally feel good to take with them the Khat so that they use it socialising with their people.

So we say, it is a matter of understanding one another’s needs on this planet earth, so that we can live in harmony.

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN.

africanpress@chello.no