(Views and News from Norway) The Norwegian defense attorney for Mullah Krekar, a former refugee who later faced multiple charges tied to terrorism, has launched a new effort to bring Krekar “home” from a jail in Italy. Norwegian officials are not willing to cooperate.
“We’re working to get Krekar home to Norway,” his longtime defense attorney Brynjar Meling told TV2 late last week. “He still has his family here, and they are well-functioning Norwegian citizens with good jobs. So there is no reason he (Krekar) shouldn’t be able to return.”
Krekar, perhaps best known for threatening Erna Solberg when she was a government minister in the early 2000s, was in and out of courtrooms and prisons in Norway for years because of various charges and convictions against him.
