Benjamin Hermansen murder case

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The Holmlia district of Oslo

The Benjamin Hermansen murder was a racially motivated violent crime committed in 2001 in the Norwegian capital, Oslo . The victim was a dark-skinned 15-year-old Norwegian with Ghanaian roots. The murder attracted international attention.

Sequence of events

Benjamin Labaran Hermansen was stabbed to death on January 26, 2001 by the neo-Nazi group Boot Boys in the Holmlia district of Oslo. The act took place in an abandoned shopping mall parking lot. A friend of Benjamin managed to escape the group. Police in Oslo arrested three suspicious men aged 21 and 20 and two girls aged 17 after the crime.

Trial of the perpetrators

About a year after the crime, the main male perpetrators Joe Erling Jahr were sentenced to 16 years and his accomplice Ole Nicolai Kvisler to 15 years in prison. A woman involved in the crime, Veronica Andreassen, was sentenced to three years in prison. The Oslo lawyer Geir Lippestad took over the defense of Ole Nicolai Kvisler. According to Lippestad, it was the first right-wing extremist murder in Norway.

Reactions

In the weeks that followed, several thousand people protested in Oslo against racially moveable violence. It has also been widely criticized that right-wing extremist groups in Norway were barely noticed by the judiciary and police until the act.

The American singer and musician Michael Jackson dedicated his last music album Invincible to Benjamin Hermansen. This happened because Michael Jackson was privately friends with Omer Bhatti from Oslo at the time and Bhatti was at the same time a close friend of Hermansen.

Mention in the film

The murder of Benjamin Hermansen was mentioned in the 2018 film July 22nd in a conversation between Geier Lippestad and Anders Behring Breivik . Lippestad also took over the defense of Breivik in 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Right-wing extremism: Norway is shocked by a murder. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ Walter Gibbs: 2 Neo-Nazis In Norway Are Guilty In Race Death . In: The New York Times . January 18, 2002, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 4, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Neo-Nazis guilty of Oslo race murder . January 17, 2002 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed September 4, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Gabriela Herpell: Interview with Breivik's lawyer. July 21, 2014, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ CNN.com - Norway jails racist killers - January 17, 2002. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ REINHARD WOLFF: Organized hunt for colored people . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 31, 2001, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 10 ( taz.de [accessed September 4, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Hedrer Benjamin. Retrieved September 4, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).