Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·JANUARY 17, 2002
Norway

Two neo-Nazis were found guilty of Norway's first racist...

Two neo-Nazis were found guilty of Norway's first racist killing after stabbing to death a mixed-race teenager because they did not like the colour of his skin

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Two neo-Nazis were found guilty of Norway's first racist killing after stabbing to death a mixed-race teenager because they did not like the colour of his skin.
An Oslo court sentenced Joe Erling Jahr to 16 years in prison and Ole Nicolai Kvisler to 15 years. Jahr, 20, and Kvisler, 22, had links to the country's neo-Nazi underworld, including the notorious "Boot Boys", and openly described themselves as racists.
Prosecutors had called for Jahr - who said himself that he deserved the death penalty - to be sentenced to the maximum of 21 years, and for Kvisler to be locked up for 19 years and four months.
The victim, Benjamin Hermansen, 15, who was of mixed Ghanaian and Norwegian extraction, was stabbed 500 yards from his home in the southern Oslo suburb of Holmlia. He died of multiple stab wounds.
Norway is believed to have only about 150 "hardcore" extremists in an overwhelmingly white population of 4.4m, but the trial has rattled the nation and forced the authorities to consider banning public displays of racist and Nazi symbols.
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  • (Sources: Guardian, 18/01/2002)