Suspicious suitcase at Oslo station.
Attacks leave Norway paranoid. Abandoned luggage causes authorities to evacuate the area and interrupt rail traffic. The incident occurs after criticism for the delay in arresting Anders Behring Breivik.
247 with international agencies – The main suspect in last Friday's attacks, which left 76 dead in Norway, is in custody. But panic and insecurity still reign in the streets of Oslo. This morning, Norwegian police evacuated the central train station after detecting a suspicious suitcase on its premises, according to public television "NRK". Authorities are searching for a man between 25 and 30 years old, wearing black clothes and a white cap. He is believed to have left the luggage on platform 19.
A bomb squad with sniffer dogs was deployed to the building, located in the heart of Oslo. The station is near the site where the powerful car bomb that killed eight people exploded last Friday. Furthermore, rail traffic in the area has been completely halted while experts examine the suitcase.
The incident highlights the harm caused by the shooter Anders Behring Breivik. An open society like Norway's now lives in a climate of paranoia. Anyone is a potential suspect.
On high alert since the weekend, the police prefer not to take any more risks. Norwegian security forces have been criticized for their response to Friday's attacks and, especially, for the slowness with which they responded to the island of Utoeya, 40 kilometers from Oslo. An internal report indicates that the economic cuts of recent years have affected the operations of their helicopter, which could not be used to apprehend Anders Behring Breivik more quickly at the youth camp. The document, released this Wednesday by public television "NRK", reveals that, due to financial difficulties, the police have reduced the annual operating time of the force's only helicopter to 900 hours this year, less than three hours a day on average. In 2006, when the security forces acquired it, the equipment and technical personnel to pilot it were available 24 hours a day.