After Mental Illness, Norway Police Query Bow-And-Arrow Killer's Muslim Faith
NDTV
Four women and one man died, and three others were injured on Wednesday during the assault in the south-eastern town of Kongsberg.
Norwegian police on Saturday cast doubt on the narrative that the perpetrator of a bow-and-arrow attack that left five people dead was a serious convert to Islam.
Police inspector Per Thomas Omholt told reporters the ongoing investigations had reinforced the idea that the suspect, Danish citizen Espen Andersen Brathen who has admitted the killings, had mental health issues.
However "the thinking is that he did not take (the conversion) very seriously. By this we mean that he did not follow or practise the traditions that are common in this culture and religion," the inspector said.
Website Nettavisen has published a video Brathen allegedly posted to social media in 2017, in which he issued a "warning" and declared his Muslim faith.
