A man fired around the London Pub, a Queer high place in the city, killing two people and wounding twenty -one, in full Oslo Pride.
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The rumble of the tram, some cries of seagulls, and a deafening silence. The Norwegian capital woke up in shock, Saturday June 25, after the killing that took place in the city center, on the eve of the last day of the Oslo Pride, a week of festivities turned to the LGBT community. Around one in the morning, an assailant released a weapon and fired on festival -goers. He killed two people and injured twenty -one, according to a provisional assessment, hitting Norway at the heart of his capital and his progressive values.
Blue dress and sunglasses on proven eyes, Aunaas, 24, replaces two rainbow flags at the foot of the sheaves deposited at the intersection of the Pilestredet and Rosenkrantz streets, barred by the police. Place draws a triangle. Tron-Petter points three bars at the ends. “These are gay bars. We are in the heart of the gay district in Oslo. Everyone knows that here. It is an attack on everything we have built, our model of tolerance, of acceptance of the other “, he denounces, amazed. He had spent there in the night, photographing in the crowd, before being woken up by the worried calls of his loved ones in the morning. 2>
Oslo struck in full LGBT celebrations
This Friday, June 24, the Norwegian capital welcomed the biggest party LGBT annual of the country, an entire week of celebrations and music deemed to attract more crowd than national holiday. The night looked white and joyful. The giant sound system installed at the Studentterlunden, the Park of the Center of Oslo, spitled Lady Gaga.
Homosexual and lesbian couples were walking freely, hand in hand, between the facades decorated with dozens of rainbow flags. Some sketched an feverish dance step on the asphalt as the hours advanced, in the half-day of the northern summer nights. “We are an inclusive and progressive city,” said the mayor, Marianne Borgen, during a reception at the Town Hall, at the start of the evening.
On the blows of an hour in the morning, more than a dozen shots are fired near London Pub. An institution, the oldest bar in the capital, and the high place of the Oslo Pride celebrations in the Norwegian night. “Without the London Pub, Oslo would not be Oslo,” summarizes Joakim, an adoption bones for nine years. “In eleven years of pride, I have never seen that, breath, haggard, Martin Hallingstad, 45, who works for the event. Of course we have heteros who groan, but it is not going further. He , obviously, if, “he grimaces, pointing the place where the killer burst out. One of his friends is hospitalized this morning, after receiving a bullet in the scapula.
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