Neo-Nazis Held in Killing, Norway Says

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OSLO, Jan. 28--Five neo-Nazis have been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a black teenager, a killing that officials say was racially motivated.

The teenager, Benjamin Hermansen, 15, was killed late Friday in Holmlia, a multiracial suburb.

The police are holding three men in their 20's and two 17-year-old girls, and say the five were active in the neo-Nazi group known as Bootboys, which has about 200 followers. They were caught in an Oslo apartment filled with Nazi paraphernalia, the police said.

"I have served in Lebanon and Yugoslavia, and there people were killed because of their race," a police inspector, Finn Abrahamsen, said in an interview with the daily newspaper Dagbladet. "I never thought this could happen in Norway."

Mr. Hermansen, whose father, now deceased, was from Ghana and whose mother is Norwegian, was a popular figure in his neighborhood, where he was active in fighting racism. Last summer he appeared on Norwegian television to talk about being assaulted by neo-Nazi youths during a soccer tournament in Denmark.

The stabbing took place shortly before midnight Friday. Norwegian newspapers reported that Mr. Hermansen tried to escape when he was attacked, but that he slid on the ice and was stabbed several times in the stomach and chest. A Norwegian friend with him was not hurt.

In a statement today, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg warned against the threat that racism and intolerance represent to Norwegian society.

"I wanted to be like him," one of Mr. Hermansen's friends, Victor Lopez, said at an antiracism rally today. "Benjamin cared about fairness."

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