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Naked weightlifter shocks talent show hosts

An amateur weightlifter left the hosts of Norway's leading TV talent show gasping in shock, after he suddenly bared all as he attempted a 'world record'.

Published: 19 August 2015 00:03 CEST
Naked weightlifter shocks talent show hosts
Einar the strongman in the middle of his naked exertions. Photo: Screen grab

Scandinavians are well known for their liberal attitudes towards nudity, but Monday night's edition of Norske Talenter, Norway's equivalent of Britain's Got Talent, put that tolerance to the test.

The 38-year-old man, known simply as 'Einar', whipped off his dressing gown to reveal a far from well-honed physique in all its naked glory, and then attempted to lift an enormous red dumbbell, his face puffing out with the exertion. 
 
Einar gave the judges only the briefest warning of what he had in mind. Before attempting the lift, he was asked if he felt nervous.
 
“Not about this,” he replied. “I am a bit nervous about my clothes.”
 
He then quickly disrobed, and, judging from the shocked expressions on the faces of the host and judges, they hadn't been expecting him to perform without costume. 
 
Last year's winner of Norske Talenter, eight-year-old Angelina Jordan, has won international acclaim for her eerily accurate, breathy covers of soul and blues classics. 
 
It remains to be seen if Einar will find similar fame.

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Dozens of police injured during riots at Berlin’s last hold-out squat

Sixty police officers were injured in riots that erupted Wednesday at one of Berlin's last squats ahead of disputed fire protection checks on the building.

Published: 17 June 2021 09:31 CEST
Dozens of police injured during riots at Berlin's last hold-out squat
Burning barricades in the Rigaer St. on June 16th. Photo: dpa | Andreas Rabenstein

Its facade covered in murals and anti-capitalist graffiti, the occupied building at 94 Rigaer Strasse is among the squats that mushroomed across the city after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Numerous attempts have been made in recent years to clear the squat, but each time they have ended in violence.

Ahead of Thursday’s planned fire protection inspection, police had declared the zone a restricted area and banned all demonstrations in the environs.

But as officers arrived on the scene to secure the area, they were met with a hail of stones flung from roofs and the street.

Firecrackers were also hurled from windows and barricades set up by far-left activists were set on fire.

Police said officers were attacked by “around 200 people from the street and from the roof with stones”.

“Material was brought on the street and set on fire,” they added on Twitter.

As water cannons were brought in to put out the fires, officers partially withdrew from the scene.

But they later returned, backed by climbing experts, who were helping them get on the roof of the building to remove stones placed there by residents, added police.

Officials have planned a heavy deployment lasting into Thursday.

Berlin’s interior minister Andreas Geisel vowed a tough crackdown on the militants, saying there can be no special treatment or a “law for Rigaer Strasse”.

Rigaer 94 has been branded by Germany’s domestic security service as the centre of Berlin’s anarchist scene.

While some want to see the counter-culture bastion wiped off the capital’s map, others have defended it as a vestige of an old Berlin rapidly disappearing as property prices and rents rise sharply.

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