COPENHAGEN, Denmark—A man held over a deadly weekend shooting in Oslo is still refusing to talk to police, making it hard to establish whether he had any accomplices, Norwegian authorities said on June 29.
Zaniar Matapour, a 43-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran, was arrested shortly after June 25’s predawn shooting in the Norwegian capital’s nightlife district and was held on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Two people were killed and more than 20 wounded in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terror act.”
Prosecutor Børge Enkosen told a press conference Wednesday that the suspect’s refusal to be questioned means “we are still unsure whether (he) may have had accomplices.” He added that police had offered to question Matapour without either sound or video recordings, but he declined….