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Asking the government to clarify timing faster
NOAS leader Ann-Magrit Austenå believes it is important for relatives to clarify as soon as possible how the police handled the AUF young people's dramatic cry for help after Anders Behring Breivik appeared on Utøya.
Wednesday it was announced that the Government appoint a special 22 July-commission, which was first expected to come with a full review in a year.
Secretary General of the Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers (NOAS) believe that the interests of relatives' grief work are good reasons to expedite a review of what exists of conflicting information about the times people have called 112 (Norway's 911) and timing of the recorded warning.
There are clearly many unanswered questions and conflicting information has emerged from police, government, youth and families suggest that there is a discrepancy in the information about when the police were first notified about the shooting on Utøya and how quickly the police came to the island. I think it would be very wise of the government to accelerate this part of the Commission's work, says Ann-Magrit Austenå. ...
No one wants a search for scapegoats, but the time aspect is particularly important for parents, siblings and others to come to terms with the children and young people who were killed and mutilated in cold blood. It is of great importance to reveal all the facts about whether their desperate warnings were actually registered with the police and how quickly the work groups were alerted. Many question whether lives could have been saved if police had managed to stop the perpetrator earlier. For the grief work of those who are hardest hit, it will be important to find out what really happened. Relatives need to get the most accurate information from these dramatic hours. I believe this constitutes a separate dimension in relation to our need for a large, comprehensive review of the entire drama, from the rented van being incorrectly parked to the identification of all of the victims.
Two time points are essential, says Austenå. At first police said that the first news of the attack on Utøya was received by the operations center in northern Buskerud at 17.02. But later the police "corrected" their information as to when they were notified by almost 25 minutes. According to chief of staff John Fredriksen in Oslo Police, audit logs show that the first alert first came at 17.25.
According to a timeline Dagbladet presents on its website, came Anders Behring Breivik to Utøya at 17.07. He should have started shooting just a minute later.
There were perhaps 600 young people with mobile phones present on the island and AUF leader and a handful of others came quickly over to the mainland. They say that they immediately started transmitting warnings. In addition, we have heard of young people who experienced unbelievable horrors and parents who were rejected when they called 112. Taken together, this information makes it appear strange that more than 20 minutes passed before any notice was registered with the police. We know that the perpetrator shot until he was arrested, and that he was committing murder toward the end of the incident as well. Therefore, the time difference is important. Was there a technical or human error, so it is something that could happen in other situations? But there are many who claim to know what really happened, said Austenå.
Maybe I should take some diplomacy lessons from this women, but this has been my major beef with the police all along.
