It was an incident in Innherredsveien 7, where, among others, Aleris Hospital has premises, which triggered the armed police action in the afternoon hours on Wednesday.
The action lasted for just over an hour and a half.
Photo: Håvard Haugseth Jensen
The building has been searched without any findings
Latest, at 17.34: The police searched the building and found no suspicious person.
– The police have now obtained video surveillance from the address which shows a person “armed” with what looks like an umbrella. The police have spoken to the reporting party and confirmed that it is the same person, the police reported at 17:33.
– The campaign at Møllenberg ends, they wrote.
The police rigged down after action.
Photo: Håvard Haugseth Jensen
At 5:31 p.m operations manager Einar Røstum told Adresseavisen that they had obtained video surveillance from the site, and that they were working to have this investigated.
He said a person matching the witness descriptions could be seen on one of the recordings, and that person was carrying an umbrella.
– But we are now working to investigate whether it is this person. It is not completely clear yet, he said.
Røstum said they have searched every room in the building without finding any weapons.
At 17.27: Adresseavisen’s photographer reports that a group of about ten people came out of the building.
Operations leader Thor Inge Oxholm Aas.
Photo: Håvard Haugseth Jensen
At 17.05 two civilian policemen got out of a civilian police car. They put on stab-proof vests.
The incident leader at the scene, Thor Inge Oxholm Aas, said at 5 p.m. that they had two independent witnesses who told of a person with a hood and a weapon who entered the building.
– We act on the basis that it could be a person with evil intentions, he said.
Civilian police in stab-proof vests arrive at the scene.
Photo: Håvard Haugseth Jensen
He specified that the blockades would be maintained until the action was finished and the police considered the area safe.
They also carried out several intelligence searches to find out if the messages were true.
– We have control over civilians and control on the spot, emphasizes Aas.
Operations manager Røstum said that they took the messages very seriously.
Want to get out of the building
At 16.45: Adresseavisen’s photographer reported that there were people who wanted to get out of the building that the police were searching.
– They call down from the fifth floor and ask if it is safe to come out.
– Unclear situation
The situation was unclear in the early phase of the operation, according to the police.
They blocked off the streets and police guarded every corner.
Photo: Camilla Kilnes
Residents stay inside
At 16.12: A resident who called Adresseavisen’s tip line said that there were several police cars at the scene and that the police are armed.
– We are not particularly afraid, because we often feel that something is happening here, said the resident.
– But nothing is blocked here, and then I become a little skeptical.
Immediately after the phone call from the resident, at 4.22 pm, Kirkegata was closed.
Photo: Camilla Kilnes
The person must have entered the building
The information they had was that a person should have entered a building with a weapon.
At 4:00 p.m.: – The police have asked people to stay indoors, says Superintendent of Police Mattis Hamborg to Adresseavisen on the spot.
He then said that the police had isolated the building. No one was allowed to go out of there.
Adresseavisen’s reporter at the scene said that the police had set up several roadblocks.
Five uniformed police cars were parked outside a building. An armored vehicle was located in Innherredsveien at 4 p.m.
At 15.54: The police received a report about the incident.
Photo: adressa.no tips
Photo: adressa.no tips
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2024-09-26 23:53:08
