What is the situation in Angrunnsdalen right now?

Asker municipality, owning the property around the occupied military barrack, has demanded the occupants to leave the house and property and would otherwise order the police to evict. So far the AFS is still standing strong and police has not really shown interest in actually evicting the house. An eviction could though always happen without an extra announcement.

Legal consequences in Norway

The consequences one has to face when being evicted from the AFS depend on the citizenship of an individual and of course on the charges against them.

• Non-EU citizens will more likely be arrested and can risk being banned from Norway and possibly the whole Schengen region). It is not clear how often this is actually used, but the possibility persists.
• EU citizens risk being send out of Norway after an eviction, but can travel back into the country at a later point.

In general the police can detain someone (e.g. if they want to remove the person from the situation) for up to 4 hours. If police instead decides to arrest a person – which could happen in case of refusing identification, running from the police, being a non-EU citizen or if the police needs to control the situation – they can hold the person for 48-72 hours, with a possibility for extension. In case of refusing identification there is no upper limit of how long one can be held by police.

The laws that are frequently used in these kind of situations are 

• Paragraph 268 “innbrudd og ulovlig inntregning” (fines or prison up to 2 years)  
• Politiloven paragraf 30 “ikke følge politiets ordre” (fines or prison up to 3-6 months)

and fines or prison sentences might be combined if one is accused of several offenses. In most cases one is rather ordered to pay a fine than being imprisoned. 

Note that refusing identification can in itself lead to a fine, whereas running from the police is not illegal in itself.

In case of detention or arrest

In both cases one has the right to a lawyer, but if one is being detailned (held for less than 4 hours) the state will not provide a lawyer themselves. In the case of being detained one can also always ask for a phone call and to speak to a lawyer.

The police often tries to push people to accepting fines already when they are detained, but one has the right to think about this before accpeting it. That means; don’t sign anything!