Self proclaimed sigøynerkonge charged with threats with weapons

After the NRK understand was Karoli arrested in an armed action in Oslo on Thursday evening. The police confirm that they are investigating a trusselsak.

Rene "Rome" Karoli and his brother Alex "Dolla" Karoli have both claimed that they have the title "sigøynerkonge" after their father Polycarp Karoli died in 2001. This has been a part of the conflict in the Room-the environment in Norway.

– What I can say is that an old acquaintance of the police department are arrested for, over time, have made threats against one or more persons, says politiadvokat Andreas Meeg-Bentzen at the Oslo police district.

among those Charged were apprehended in what appeared as an un-dramatic action, he adds.

By NRK, get lit, is trusselsaken a part of an old conflict between the Karoli family and the Jansen family, a different part of the Room-the environment in Norway.

the Threats should have been made through social media, after the conflict between the two families have pricked up to the last time.

It must have been the people who were threatened that even took contact with the police. Meeg-Bentzen will not go into details about the indictment of the regard to the investigation.

– But it seems as if there is an underlying conflict that has come to the surface, " he says.

– Is it seized weapons?

I will not comment on. Out from the information in the case can, however, indicate that there has been våpenlignende objects involved. It is necessary with imprisonment both in respect to the investigation and because there is a risk for recurrences.

According to Karolis defender he will refuse imprisonment.

He did not acknowledge straffskyld and will covet him released, says lawyer Per Bjørnar Fjeld Appellants at the law firm Hasle.

– It is very early in the case yet, " he adds.

Karoli is a well-known name of the police from the past, and have been implicated in a number of internal settlement in the Norwegian harsh environment of space. In 2014 he and his son attacked in a bloody scuffle at the Torshov bingo in Oslo.

the Perpetrators used according to the judgment both knife, axe, machete and a crowbar when they went loose on the two. Five men were later convicted in the case.

Four of the five convicted in Our case belonged to the Joseph family, who were in conflict with Karoli-genus. The conflict has also been with the rival Jansen family, which previously politioverbetjent Find Abrahamsen at one time tried to mediate.

Although in recent years has been less discussion in the public sphere, should it have continued to smolder. NRK gets confirmed that the police to this day have followed closely on the environment.