Woman assaulted and raped in central Oslo – NRK Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
The incident happened in Tollbugata in Oslo and the police received a report about the case at 10.20pm. The police were still on the scene at 1.30am.
– We are looking for the perpetrator, but no one has been arrested, says operations manager Per-Ivar Iversen in the Oslo police district to NTB. He does not want to say much more about the matter.
After a wave of rapes in 2011, the Oslo police made new guidelines so that fewer reported assault rapes would be mentioned in the media. A report found that an increase in reports of rape was associated with the number of press reports.
– Previously, we went out with many cases, but there was tremendous fear. A media image was created that there were a lot of rapes all the time, said head of the section for sexual crimes, Kari-Janne Lid, to VG in 2016.
The practice that still applies in the Oslo police is that rapes can only be reported if the public can contribute to the investigation, if the police are afraid that the perpetrator may rape again or if the media has picked up on the incident in another way.