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Man knocked out for entering wrong house

A 32-year-old man was knocked unconscious by a householder when he entered a house in the town of Kirkenes in the far north of Norway on Friday morning, in what appears to have been a misunderstanding.

Published: 27 December 2013 16:17 CET
Man knocked out for entering wrong house
A view of Kirkenes, where the incident took place. The house in question is not in the picture. Photo: Clemensfranz

The man entered the house at 6am on Friday, whereupon the householder hit the man on the head, according to the Finnmarken newspaper.

"It seems as though he quite simply got the wrong door," said Einar Ingilæ of Kirkines police.

"He was visiting another home in the same building, and went for a walk out at some point. When he went back, he went to the family's door, which was locked," Ingilæ told Finnmarken.

The intruder lost consciousness and was given ‘life-saving’ treatment by paramedics on the scene, according to Nordlys newspaper. The man was take to hospital and regained consciousness later in the morning.

“He has been treated and is now under observation. He has sustained minor to negligible damage , said Eilert Sundt of the local health authority.

Children were present when he entered the building. Ingilæ says police have not yet determined whether the householder was acting in self-defence:

“There’s a limit to what can be defined as lawful self-defence, but we’ll have to take a view on this later.”

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Norwegian police charge Olympic champion’s father for domestic violence

Norwegian police said Monday that Gjert Ingebrigtsen, father and former coach of 1,500m Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, had been charged with domestic violence against a family member.

Published: 29 April 2024 16:41 CEST
Norwegian police charge Olympic champion's father for domestic violence

Jakob Ingebrigtsen and two of his brothers, Henrik and Filip, who are also athletes, shocked Norway last October when they accused their father of being violent.

“We grew up with a very aggressive and authoritarian father, who used physical violence and threats as part of his upbringing,” the brothers wrote in an op-ed for newspaper VG. “We still feel a sense of discomfort and fear that we have felt since childhood,” they added.

Police opened a probe into the abuse claims and on Monday said prosecutors had decided to charge Gjert Ingebrigtsen, 58, with domestic violence against one of his children.

According to a source close to the case, the acts in question do not concern the trio of known athletes but another, younger child.

Over a period of four years, from 2018 to 2022, Gjert Ingebrigtsen allegedly manhandled, insulted, threatened and hit the child in the face with his hand or with a towel.

Responding to questions from AFP, Therese Braut Vage, who led the investigation, would not confirm this account.

Police said they had closed investigations into other events concerning the six other children in the home either due to a lack of evidence or, in one case, because the statute of limitations having expired.

Gjert, who coached Jakob until after the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo — where Jakob won the gold — has always denied the accusations against him.

“As far as the dismissed cases, we agree that there is no evidence to prove that Ingebrigtsen committed any wrongdoing,” his lawyer John Christian Elden told AFP on Monday.

“For the rest, Ingebrigtsen disputes the description of the facts on which the indictment is based — and he therefore does not admit his guilt,” he continued in an email.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the most successful of the three brothers, twice winning gold in the world championships 5000m in 2022 and 2023, as well as the Olympic 1500m gold.

The 23-year-old is also preparing for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.

Henrik, 33, and Filip, 31, were European champions in the 1500m in 2012 and 2016 respectively.

After breaking with his sons, Gjert Ingebrigtsen shocked Norwegian athletics by becoming the trainer of another runner, Narve Gilje Nordas.

The Norwegian Olympic Committee has said that Gjert will not be granted accreditation for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, as was the case at last year’s World Athletics Championships.

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