Norwegian police on Saturday cast doubt on the narrative that the perpetrator of a bow-and-arrow attack that left five people dead was a serious convert to Islam.
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<strong>Psychiatric tests for attacker</strong>
A bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead this week appears to have been motivated by mental illness, authorities said on Friday, as the perpetrator was ordered to be kept in a medical facility. Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen who converted to Islam and is believed to have been radicalized, has confessed to the Wednesday killings. He was in custody in a medical facility on Friday pending a psychiatric evaluation. “The strongest hypothesis after the first days of the investigation is that illness is in the background,” police inspector Per Thomas Omholt told
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