Cousin charged with the murder of Said (28): - Has explained about the conflict

Friday night was Said Bassam Chataya knivdrept in a masseslagsmål outside a Circle K gas station in Bergen.

A man in the 20-years have today been in a long interrogation with police, charged with murder. Chataya was killed with several knife wounds towards the torso during the slagsmålet that broke out 21.30 Friday night.

at the same time is now twelve people in custody, nine of them are charged with gross kroppskrenkelse. All of them are well known to the police.

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the Men in the 20 - and 30-years will have eloped from the scene a short time after slagsmålet, and were apprehended at different locations in Bergen. Several witnesses attempted to save the life of the victim Chataya, but he was declared dead at the hospital shortly thereafter.

The drapssiktede man has in questioning today, explained about a conflict between him and the deceased.

He has stated that there has been a conflict between him and the deceased, but would not go into any details of the interrogation, says his defender Jørgen Riple to the Newspaper.

Defender about drapssiktet (22): - He has it rough

the Defender says he does not know why it should have been so many on the scene.

the Newspaper know that the deceased and the defendant are cousins. Riple will only confirm that there was a relationship between them.

- There is a relationship between the deceased and my client, but there is enough between the two that the conflict basically has been, " he says.

Did not know that he was dead

He says that the defendant has not yet taken a position on the question of straffskyld.

It was a theme in the interrogation, but he has not yet responded yes or no to the question, " he says.

Drapssiktede stuck from the crime scene at the Circle K shortly after the incident. A surveillance video from the gas station are among the police's main evidence, and shall show the actual killing.

According to the defender Riple did not know the drapssiktede that Said Bassam Chataya was dead until last night.

He says that he was not familiar with it. It was I who presented the information to him in our first conversation around at 19: 00 on Saturday evening. He was in the belief that the offended person lived, " says Riple.

LAWYER: Jørgen Riple defend the drapssiktede man. Archive photo: Thomas Rasmus Skaug / Dagbladet Show more - self defence can be themed

- How to have your client now?

There is one in the family that died. At the same time he has not slept in nearly two days, is very tired and it is not very good. He is, of course, very aware that it is heavy for the deceased and the family, " he says.

defence counsel emphasizes that he himself has not seen overvåkningsvideoen from the petrol station.

- Now will at some point be a theme in the case, but it is too early to conclude whether this is a self, " says Riple.

the Man, the will is presented for varetektsfengsling Monday.

I think my client is aware that there is a high probability that he is "I and he going to meet there," says the defender.

Riple has assisted the drapssiktede man in another smaller case recently.

In may 2017, he was judged to have held less than 100 grams of marijuana. In January of this year he met in the Bergen district court on charges of theft, reports VG.

a Foreign background

Arild Dyngeland is a lawyer for the deceased man's mother. He will not comment on the information about the conflict.

- I have no comments to the police investigator, says Dyngeland to the Newspaper.

It is not settled if several of those charged will presented for custody, but the investigation Bergen-police now undertake are very extensive.

Eleven of those charged have Norwegian citizenship, and four of these are born and raised in Norway. The remaining came to Norway in the period 1988-2008 from the middle East and Africa. While one is charged with murder and nine for gross kroppskrenkelse, are the two people charged with perjury.

GREAT INVESTIGATION: Politiinspektør Tore Salvesen and politiinspektør May-Britt Erstad, briefed about the giant investigation today. Photo: Marit Hommedal / NTB scanpix Show more

A with a foreign nationality – came to Norway in 2005 and has permanent residence in the kingdom. He comes from an African country.

- Detective motif

Everybody is born between 1987 and 2000.

- This is a great investigation. We have 12 people in custody and a number of witnesses, all of which shall avhøres. The police have put huge resources at the issue through the weekend and as of now we have around 25 investigators who only work with this case. The police spend the day today mainly on the interrogation of the persons charged and the witnesses, saith the politiinspektør Tore Salvelsen day.

What we can say about the subject and the background is that police work from a number of hypotheses with respect to what has happened, why and who has been involved – without that, we can now further into it now, " he says.

- A sad and pointless killing