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   Norwegian police said on Monday all Pride events across the   
   country should be delayed, citing security concerns after a   
   deadly weekend rampage by a gunman at a gay bar in Oslo.   
      
   Police had initially approved a planned gathering outside Oslo   
   Town Hall on Monday by the city’s LGBTQ community to honor the   
   victims of the attack.   
      
   But they later advised organizers to cancel the event, which was   
   expected to draw a large gathering. Norway raised its terrorism   
   threat assessment to its highest level after Saturday’s attack,   
   which left two dead and 21 wounded.   
      
   Police also urged Pride events nationwide to be canceled, citing   
   information from Norway’s police intelligence service, PST,   
   without giving details.   
      
   Pride events should be delayed “until further notice,” since the   
   queer community is considered part of the “enemy” by extremist   
   Islamists, National Police Chief Benedicte Bjoernland said in a   
   statement.   
      
   Oslo Pride, one of the backers of Monday’s demonstration and the   
   organizer of annual Pride celebrations that had been due to take   
   place on Saturday, confirmed it would cancel the gathering.   
      
   “We are sorry that once again we have to say that a Pride event   
   must be canceled,” it said in a statement. “It is wrong, as the   
   police claim, that this was meant to be a small event. We   
   understand that people are now frustrated and still want to   
   gather.”   
      
   Detention   
   Oslo’s district court on Monday named the suspect in the attack   
   as Zaniar Matapour, a 43-year-old Norwegian citizen of Iranian   
   origin.   
      
   Police described him as a radicalized Islamist with a history of   
   mental illness.   
      
   The court ruled that Matapour could be detained for up to four   
   weeks — a period that can be extended — during the investigation   
   into the mass shooting. He will undergo a psychiatric evaluation   
   as part of that, police said.   
      
   He was apprehended by passersby who chased him down the street.   
   Police arrived at the scene five minutes after receiving the   
   first emergency calls and took him into custody.   
      
   Intelligence services said they knew of Matapour since 2015 and   
   that he had been part of a network of Islamist extremists in   
   Norway.   
      
   “Around 2015 we were worried about this person,” Roger Berg,   
   acting head of PST, told private broadcaster TV2 on Saturday.   
      
   “We have followed him, to a degree. In more recent times, he was   
   not one of the people we were the most worried about.”   
      
   His lawyer, John Christian Elden, did not respond to a Reuters   
   request for comment.   
      
   He told TV2 it was not possible to draw any conclusions about   
   the motives or reasons for the attack. “It is far too early to   
   do so,” he said.   
      
   Matapour is accused of murder, attempted murder and terrorism.   
   His response to the accusations is not known.   
      
   He moved to Norway as a child with his parents, became a father   
   and for several years lived mainly off benefits, tabloid VG   
   reported.   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/norway-police-seek-   
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