Espen Andersen Bråthen transferred as investigation into motives, and psychiatric evaluation continue
The man suspected of killing five people with a bow and arrows and other weapons in Norway has been transferred to the public health service, a state prosecutor has said, amid concerns about his mental health.
“Based on an assessment of his health condition, this was the best solution,” the prosecutor, Ann Iren Svane Mathiassen, told the Norwegian public broadcaster, NRK, on Friday, shortly before a local court agreed to the prosecution’s request for four weeks of pre-trial detention.
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