9 closed streets. Bicycle ban in the Maridalen. Hundreds of security guards. And carrots. These are the new physical tracks in the Norwegian capital, also far outside the city center, three years after 22. July. At the same time, the Castle stands without any more protection.
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Anders Behring Breivik's terror has so far cost over 1,5 billion in security measures alone. NOKAS has doubled its earnings from the state and municipality in three years. The Oslo police have lost the note with the car number that could have saved 69 human life on Utøya.
Safety. Summer coolness has come to the capital. Trams and buses are no longer full. Along Henrik Ibsen's gate, an occasional tourist can read the poet's quotes engraved in the pavements:
"You should never wear your best pants when out fighting for freedom and truth."
The quote is from the drama "An Enemy of the People" (1882). The writing is on the ground outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A few meters from Ibsen's quotes, we find traces of a new security thinking after July 22, 2011 – the day when 77 people were killed in Norway, 69 on Utøya, 8 here in the capital. Two movable lowering steps, in the colors bright yellow and orange, are mounted in the ground. In addition, two temporary barriers have emerged. A small shed on wheels with two security guards is located outside Foreign Minister Børge Brende's (H) ministry.
- You almost have to take it with them inside the reception. We are hired and can not make such a decision, says one of the guards when Ny Tid asks if it is okay to take a picture of the new security measures.
Inside the reception, the name of the journalist is noted before permission for photography is given.
- The barriers are only temporary. The barrier came up shortly after it slammed, so to speak. A completely new driveway is now being built from Arbins gate, explains one of the guards at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' reception.
1,5 billion
Helge Kvandal, senior adviser in the communications unit in the Ministry of Local Government and Modernization, informs Ny Tid that a total of NOK 1515 million has so far been allocated for security measures.
Of these, 655 million have been spent on security measures at the new premises of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (Akersgata / Munchs gate), the Ministry of Trade and Fisheries (Kongens gate), the Ministry of Education (Kirkegata), the Ministry of Justice and Emergency (Gullhaug Torg / Nydalen) Ministry of the Environment and the Environment (Kongens gate).
Because it is not just at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vika that streets are blocked. Also in Nydalen, on the way to the hiking trail up to Maridalen, Frysja and along the Akerselva, the public space is now blocked. The Ministry of Justice has moved here now. This closes the whole road and the area – some from meters from Marka.
386 million has also been spent on "expenses for technical security systems". Kvandal in the Ministry of Modernization states that new security measures after 22 July «include, among other things, the acquisition of equipment that was destroyed, building facade reinforcements, perimeter protection around the buildings, vehicle barriers, regulation of traffic in street races and the like. As well as various technical solutions and systems for detection and access control. "
Closed streets
"More openness, more democracy." This was Jens Stoltenberg's and the red – green government's short and immediate response to the largest terrorist attack in Norway's history, 22 July 2011.
The long answer is
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