(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
6. August 2007 Ali Farah was beaten down in the Sofienberg Park in Oslo, and the ambulance drivers refused to take him. Last Friday, ambulance driver Erik Schjenken (40) appeared in Aftenposten's A-magazine and told of his reactions after he was condemned and labeled as racist because of the incident in Sofienbergparken.
"I made a mistake. I will regret that mistake for the rest of my life, but it does not make me a racist ", Schjenken told A-magazine. In this issue of Ny Tid, Ali Farah responds to the statements from Schjenken. Farah calls for a sincere apology from the ambulance driver.
"Instead of whining that you've been called a racist. Admit to yourself and everyone else that you not only made a mistake, but be man enough to realize that you behaved very badly that day, ”Farah writes. Schjenken has told Aftenposten that he has repeatedly apologized for the misconduct of Farah.
Schjenken and his lawyer Bjørn Rudjord have read Farah's post, but they have neither wanted to write nor be interviewed about the case.
– Ali Farah's post is kept in a form that makes it impossible to relate to, Rudjord writes in an e-mail to Ny Tid. Rudjord did not want to comment on the post further when Ny Tid contacted him by phone.
