“Be who you might be” and “love who you need,” learn a banner on the very entrance of the parade, which began at Grønland in central Oslo on Saturday afternoon.
The parade concluded a nine-day celebration of queer love and variety, with a deal with equal rights and human dignity.
– Everybody ought to be capable to reside protected, free lives. Everybody ought to be capable to be who they’re and love who they need. Good pleasure! said Tradition and Gender Equality Minister Lubna Jaffery (Ap) simply earlier than she herself was to take part within the parade.
Reverse Aftenposten the organizer states that they estimate that round 70,000 individuals took half within the parade.
– At the moment we stuffed the streets with a sea of rainbow flags, and collectively we went for a society the place everybody might be themselves and love who they need, says basic supervisor Dan Bjørke of Oslo Pleasure to the newspaper.
4 expelled
On the forefront was the general public transport firm Routes reported deviations for a number of buses and trams between 11 am and 5 pm whereas the individuals’s practice danced its manner via the middle of the capital. As well as, a number of streets had been closed to make manner for the parade.
– This implies lots of people within the metropolis heart and variety of blocked streets, said operations supervisor Tor Gulbrandsen of the Oslo police in a message to the press on Saturday morning.
He emphasised that the police had good communication with the organizer and different companions within the run-up to this 12 months’s pleasure. Above all, to make sure that the celebration would go forward safely.
– The police can be extremely seen to safe the occasion, and we remind you that there’s a ban on plane and drones in reference to the parade, mentioned Gulbrandsen.
4 individuals had been expelled in reference to the pleasure parade resulting from “indecent expressions” and disorderly conduct/drunkenness, operations supervisor Øyvind Schalla-Aasen of the Oslo police informs Aftenposten.
The operations supervisor informs NTB that there have in any other case been no undesirable incidents in the course of the parade this 12 months. He says that they’ve had good cooperation and good communication with the organiser.
– The day has gone very properly, with good climate and many individuals within the cityscape, he says.
Armed police
The parade in Oslo is the biggest pleasure parade in Norway. A complete of 144 organizations participated, together with Amnesty, Skeiv Ungdom, The Norwegian Church and the Norwegian Armed Forces.
The police had been on excessive alert and had been armed all through the occasion, which occurred simply over two years after the mass capturing in central Oslo, the place two individuals had been killed and 9 injured. The general public prosecutor’s workplace has established that the assault was aimed toward queers.
– Pleasure is about celebrating love, range and the essential equality battles which were fought and received. Nevertheless it’s additionally in regards to the battles that also must be fought, says the tradition minister, who was joined by well being and care minister Jan Christian Vestre (Ap), justice and emergency preparedness minister Emilie Enger Mehl (Sp) and local weather and atmosphere minister Andreas Bjelland Eriksen (Ap ) within the parade.
No concrete threats
The police mentioned earlier this week ABC Information that they weren’t conscious of particular threats in opposition to the pleasure parade in Oslo, and that they see fewer threats and hate speech in opposition to queers than finally 12 months’s celebration.
The police have been in shut dialogue with the Police Safety Service (PST) about this.
Ap politician Hadia Tajik nonetheless expresses concern about all of the homophobia that has come ahead within the run-up to the parade, writes At the moment’s enterprise. The build-up to the pleasure marking has, amongst different issues, been characterised by a number of information tales about vandalism and the burning of pleasure flags in numerous elements of the nation.
– There’s something in regards to the scope and the timing that makes me cursed and frightened by the attitudes that it represents, says Tajik to the newspaper.
The hate crime statistics in Oslo present that hate crime primarily based on sexual orientation elevated by 43.7 p.c from 2022 to 2023.
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2024-06-30 04:31:23