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Norwegian police barred from Congo investigation

The officer leading the Democratic Republic of Congo's investigation into the death of Norwegian Tjostolv Moland in prison has refused to give Norwegian police a role.

Published: 23 August 2013 10:47 CEST
Norwegian police barred from Congo investigation
Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland at their appeal case in 2010 - Heiko Junge Scanpix
 
"We do not need help," Major General Tim Mukutu told VG newspaper. "The Norwegian investigators can observe the investigation, but will not take part." 
 
Officers from Norway's National Criminal Investigation Service arrived in Kinshasa at 2pm on Thursday afternoon, hoping to take part in the autopsy of Moland's body, which is expected to take place on Saturday. 
 
Joshua French, 31, found Moland dead in his cell on Sunday. The two former Norwegian army officers had been incarcerated in the Congolese capital Kinshasa since 2009, charged with murdering their driver Abedi Kasongo. 

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Director to make ‘truly successful’ Viking film

The Norwegian film director Hans Petter Moland has pledged to make the first "truly successful" Viking movie, based on The Long Ships, the classic 1940s novel by Frans G Bengtsson.

Published: 21 May 2014 15:52 CEST
Director to make 'truly successful' Viking film
Sydney Poitier in The Long Ships 'Disaster'. Photo: Screen grab from film
Moland, who is in France for the Cannes film festival, told Aftenposten newspaper that the 1964 British-Yugoslav production of the story, The Long Ships, had been "a disaster". 
 
"The genius of Bengtsson's text is that it contains a solid political and social analysis of the time the Vikings lived in," Moland said. "We want to get under the skin of the people, both the Vikings and in the country's they travel to." 
 
Peter Albæk Jensen, the legendary producer with Zentropa, the Danish film company said that the planned Viking film would be special.  
 
"Can you name a single truly successful movie about Vikings?" he asked. "No, it is mostly gibberish and nonsense which has been made on this subject. It is time we rectify this," he said. 
 
The film will feature Moland's friend and longstanding collaborator Stellan Skarsgård. 
 
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