Zaniar Matapour will serve 30 years in prison after being convicted and sentenced for an attack before a 2022 Pride celebration in Oslo. He killed two people and seriously injured nine more. A Norwegian court has found a man guilty of carrying out a deadly gun attack at a gay bar in Oslo in 2022. The shooting took place during the city’s annual Pride celebrations.
Zanier Matapour killed two people and seriously injured nine others after opening fire into a crowd outside the London Pub, a popular gay bar in the Norwegian capital.
The Oslo District Court said Matapour, fired 10 rounds with a machine gun and eight shots with a handgun into the crowd.
“This is a great relief,” the head of the support group for survivors and victims’ relatives, Espen Evjenth, told public broadcaster NRK.
