In the early hours of August 4, 2024, Norwegian police were called to an apartment in Frogner, an upmarket district of western Oslo, over a case of suspected domestic violence. Neighbors had been alarmed by loud cries — including one from a man heard shouting: “I want you to die.”
When officers arrived, they found a knife embedded in the wall and the chandelier shattered into fragments on the floor. The victim, in her mid-twenties, had been hit in the face, pinned down to the bed and “repeatedly choked so that she could not breathe”, prosecutors claim.
