{"id":37520,"date":"2019-08-15T09:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T01:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=37520"},"modified":"2019-08-15T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T01:23:19","slug":"norway-mosque-attack-bruised-suspect-manshaus-appears-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=37520","title":{"rendered":"Norway mosque attack: Bruised suspect Manshaus appears in court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/20190813_World4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">The suspect appeared in court with bruises and scratches on his face<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0OSLO, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; <\/strong>A 21-year-old Norwegian man has appeared in court in Oslo, accused of a terrorist act in connection with a gun attack on a mosque at the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His face and neck marked by bruises and scratches, Philip Manshaus was also charged with attempted murder, as well as the murder of his stepsister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manshaus is accused of opening fire at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in Baerum, west of the capital Oslo, on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after the attack, the body of his 17-year-old stepsister was found at a house in Baerum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were three people inside the centre at the time of the attack and the gunman was overpowered before police arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mosque&#8217;s director said the attacker had gone into the building wearing a helmet and body armour, carrying several weapons. Several shots were fired but no-one was seriously hurt in the mosque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 65-year-old retired Pakistani air force officer, Mohammad Rafiq, has been praised for seizing the attacker, pinning him down and taking his weapons from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the suspect appeared at Oslo district court on Monday, prosecutors were granted a four-week extension to his custody with a ban on prison visits and no access to media coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His defence lawyer, Unni Fries, said earlier that he denied the criminal charges and was not speaking to investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The head of Norway&#8217;s PST police security service told reporters that it had been given a tip-off about the suspect a year ago but that there was nothing to suggest a plan for an attack was under way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said the suspect appeared to have far-right and anti-immigrant views. Ahead of the attack, a message was posted on the EndChan forum purporting to be from Philip Manshaus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The post made a reference to New Zealand mosque attack suspect Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of murdering 51 people in Christchurch last March. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect appeared in court with bruises and scratches on his face \u00a0OSLO, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A 21-year-old Norwegian man has appeared in court in Oslo, accused of a terrorist act in connection with a gun attack on a mosque at the weekend. His face and neck marked by bruises and scratches, Philip Manshaus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}