The Kongsberg Attack: Espen Andersen Bråthen and 34 Minutes of Terror
Kongsberg, Norway. 13 October 2021. A quiet evening. Then a man in socks walks into town with a hunting bow, sixty arrows, and knives.
In thirty-four minutes, five strangers are dead.
Police already knew his name. Norway’s security service had flagged him. Psychiatry had diagnosed him years earlier. Still he reached Hyttegata.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of Espen Andersen Bråthen: the attack at Coop Extra, the killings on a residential street, the delusions of rebirth and blindness, the trial that found him guilty but not criminally responsible, and the systems that failed to stop…
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