Extradited after murder of ex-boyfriend in Poland
The Westerner, who is charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend, has been extradited to Poland for further prosecution in the Copenhagen District Court.
It has Bergens Tidende received information from the police in Copenhagen.
The woman in her mid-twenties was found murdered in her home in Oświęcim, west of Krakow, on 5 November. Her minor daughter had gone missing.
The Norwegian of the same age, who is the child’s father, became later arrested the same evening outside Copenhagen with the little girl in the car.
Since then he has sat in Danish police custody. Polish prosecutors have asked for his extradition so that he can be tried in Poland.
The Copenhagen District Court considered the request for extradition on Wednesday.
The accused’s lawyer, Poul Helmuth Petersen, has not responded to VG’s inquiry. He has informed Bergens Tidende that the Norwegian is not opposed to extradition.
Police attorney Arild Fjellstad has informed VG that the Polish woman lived in Norway from 2014 and emigrated in May 2020.
According to NRK she met a peer at university in Bergen and became pregnant by him. When the relationship ended after three years, she and her daughter moved to Poland.
The man reported her to the police for having wrongfully taken their common child to Poland, but the West police district dismissed the case as no criminal offence.
The Polish court ruled that the mother had parental responsibility.
After the murder, the deceased has temporarily taken over the care of the child.
A friend of the murderer told VG that he looking forward to visiting the daughter.