– He is requesting to be released. Nothing has been added to strengthen the case against him, and when it is not yet ready to decide whether he should be prosecuted, he can wait at large, says Bhatti’s defender, lawyer John Christian Elden, to NTB.
He says the client will appear in the Oslo district court when the detention hearing starts on Friday morning.
Bhatti is charged with complicity in terrorism after the shooting during Pride in Oslo on the night of 25 June 2022, where Zaniar Matapour killed two people and injured a number of others. Bhatti had traveled out of the country when the terrorist attack was carried out, but was arrested in Pakistan and extradited to Norway at the beginning of May this year.
The police believe the 47-year-old must still be kept in prison.
– The prosecution has asked for continued imprisonment for four weeks, and for the accused to be subject to a letter and visiting ban for the entire period. The prosecution states that there is a risk of tampering with evidence and a risk of evasion, as before, says police attorney Ingvild Myrold ​​to NTB.
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