deadly shooting in Oslo leaves two dead and 21 injured

Bouquet of flowers and rainbow flag in hand, the Queen of Norway gathered on Saturday, June 25, near the site of the attack. “It’s absolutely horrible. You feel safe, you want to go out at night, and suddenly it happens”, comments a man, who also came to show his solidarity. At one o’clock in the morning in a festive district of Oslo (Norway), a man fired in the direction of a bar and killed two people. He then attacked a gay club. In total, the shooting left two people dead and 21 injured, 10 of them seriously.

“I thought it was just a fight. I rushed over, I saw it was a shooting, someone with an automatic weapon”, says a witness. The man, arrested quickly, is a 42-year-old Norwegian of Iranian origin. He had been known to the anti-terrorism services since 2015. The assailant would have acted alone. The track of Islamist terrorism is privileged.