Threat to Telia in Norway after the commercials

"The threat to Telia in Norway after the commercials"

"Telia's head office in Oslo, has received threats after publishing an advert where a woman throws the veil."

"A lot of complaints have come in to Telia because of the movie."

"the Threat to Telia's head office came in during the Tuesday morning. The police consider it not real, but was still in place at the office during the day, according to the news agency NTB."

"– We have specific criteria to evaluate the threat and we have assessed this as a unspecific threats and not real, But to make threats is in itself a punishable offence, so we are investigating the matter, " says Tor Jøkling at Oslopolisen til l Nettavisen."

"Kristian Fredheim, communications manager at Telia in Norway, confirms to Nettavisen that the threat is directly linked to the movie."

"– this is a concrete polisärende and we have a good dialogue with the police and the safety of our employees is the most important thing to prioritize, " says Fredheim."

"the Film has not been shown in Sweden."

"– It is a film for the Norwegian market, " says Ralf Bagner, press officer at Telia Company in Sweden, to the TT."

"– It is, of course, seriously and we are cooperating fully with the police, " he said about the threat."

"In the film, which has been published in social media such as Facebook and Instagram, including a sequence where a woman takes off a hijab, while another is taking on its. The message is freedom of choice and the viewer is invited to be safe, free, and himself."