Posted on 05/19/2022 5:25:36 PM PDT by Morgana
Chilling footage has emerged of the moment Norway's notorious bow and arrow killer began his rampage in a supermarket in the town of Kongsberg last year.
Espen Andersen Bråthen, 38, went on trial yesterday for the murder of five people and attempted murder of 11 more on October 13, 2021.
The Muslim convert, who was listed by Norwegian security services as a person of concern as early as 2015, hacked his victims to death with a hunting knife after having unleashed a torrent of arrows at innocent bystanders in a Co-Op Extra supermarket.
CCTV footage, released by police as Bråthen's trial began, showed how the killer strode into the store brandishing a bow with a quiver of deadly arrows and a huge hunting knife sheathed on his belt.
Dressed in khaki trousers and a plain white vest, the killer loaded his arrows and let them fly at terrified civilians with no hesitation.
The 38-year-old pleaded guilty before a judge yesterday morning as the court heard how he stalked the streets of Kongsberg with dozens of arrows before stabbing five people aged 52-78, including four women, to death.
The killer's first victims were Gunnar Sauve and Liv Borge, a married couple both aged 75 who were hacked to death in their ground floor apartment.
He went on to stab Gun Marith Madsen, a 78-year-old who walked with the aid of a zimmer frame, before attacking Andrea Meyer, 52, from Hamburg, and ceramic artist Hanne Englund, aged 56.
Local police officer Rigoberto Villarroel, 48, was in the Co-Op Extra store with his family when Bråthen began shooting, and was hit in the back, but ultimately survived.
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do you still have that “not a ping” ping? Some how I think this one is just perfect if you do
Thankfully guns are illegal in Norway, otherwise someone could have been hurt…
He thought people were taking the Hobbits to Isengard. Had to stop them.
Norway...he’ll get 6 months house arrest. The same country that used to have the stones to execute Quisling and others for collaboration. When Norway was still Norway.
Named after the sports network?
“Thankfully guns are illegal in Norway...”
They aren’t but typical European hoops.
The Muslim convert.....
Here all this time I thought they came in quivers...
What? No AR15? How is that possible?
Ban bows and arrows, in Norway.
I have a fun long bow.
No way in this lady’s league.
You have to begin by banning high capacity quivers like these.
😂😂
True.
looks like a fully semiautomatic 80% ghost bow.
The proper use of a bow.
Aloha snackbar.
Wait, there’s a bow in that picture?
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