An active member of a shooting club who immigrated to Norway as a child, and who was until last year registered as living in a small municipality in Eastern Norway. This is what we know about the 18-year-old charged with terrorism.^[I have combined the subheadline with the caption of the first picture here. Something to note about that caption is that it appears to have been accidentally cut off in a manner that suggests he was still living in the small municipality at the time of the murder, but the article itself contradicts this.]
—By Harald Stolt-Nielsen and Silje Enghaug. Published August 25, 2025, at 1:24 PM; last updated 2:37 PM.—
An 18-year-old was arrested last weekend and charged with the murder of 34-year-old Tamima Nibras Juhar. On Monday, the charge was expanded to include terrorism. This is what we know about the accused.
Has lived in Norway for a long time
The 18-year-old was born in Germany but has lived for more than 10 years in Norway. The National Population Register reports that he is still a German citizen. He was school age when he immigrated to Norway from a country in Eastern Europe. Aftenposten does not know if he immigrated to Norway with one or more family members.
When he first came to Norway, he lived in Oslo. At that time, he lived in the borough which would later place him in the residential facility^[Tr-ex only had one example of the word botiltak in its corpus and it was translated as residential facility, so that's what I've gone for here, too.] in Kampen, Oslo.
[TL note: This is some really weird phrasing, but what it's trying to say — as clarified by the caption under the attached picture immediately below it — is that the killer was at one point registered as living at the same address where his victim was recently found dead.]
Active member of a shooting club
The 18-year-old lived for a period in a small municipality in Eastern Norway, where he was registered at the address of a couple who have openly stated that they are foster parents. This is to say that until last year, he did not live in Oslo.
When he lived in the municipality in Eastern Norway, he was among other things active in a shooting club, according to documents that Aftenposten has received access to. The municipality's local hunting and fishing association highlighted in an annual report the accused's achievements on the shooting range.
The 18-year-old participated in shooting contests among other things as well.^[This was originally part of a caption under a photo.]
Active in a far-right Telegram channel
The accused teenager moved back to Oslo in spring of last year, according to the National Population Register. Almost one year later, in March of this year, Oslo Police started receiving messages of concern related to the then-17-year-old boy's far-right views.
According to Filter Nyheter^[Another Norwegian news publication.], the boy appeared in a far-right Telegram channel on March 26, where he reportedly expressed support for the political party "The Alliance - Alternative for Norway" under a pseudonym.
Translated transcript of screencapped Telegram chat (1)
[Terrorist @ 4:34 PM]: Hello
[Terrorist @ 4:34 PM]: Good vibes here gotta say
[Other Nazi 1 @ 4:35 PM]: Yeah, what brought you here? I don't mean it in a bad way
[Terrorist @ 4:36 PM]: I joined because I support this party
[Terrorist @ 4:36 PM]: And your ideology
[Terrorist @ 4:39 PM]: By the way do you guys support lysglimt johansen^[Referring to Hans Jørgen Lysglimt Johansen, leader of The Alliance - Alternative for Norway.]
[Other Nazi 2 @ 5:06 PM]: [replying to Terrorist's previous message with a blurry GIF of a bald man holding what appears to be the party flag of The Alliance - Alternative for Norway. Looks to me like it's at some sort of party stand in an area with lower-density housing, probably in connection with the upcoming parliamentary election. A Norwegian flag is visible as well.]
[Other Nazi 2 @ 5:06 PM]: Yes
[Terrorist @ 5:08 PM]: Me too
[Terrorist @ 5:08 PM]: I see what the immigrants are doing to us
[END OF TRANSCRIPT]
The man^[Interesting how Aftenposten went right from calling the terrorist a boy to calling him a man. I get that he's now legally an adult but it still just feels weird to me to treat turning 18 as a hard line between a boy and a man.] has been on the radar of the Norwegian Police Security Service for some time.
Despite not being a Norwegian citizen, he wrote several times in the Telegram channel that he was Norwegian.
Translated transcript of screencapped Telegram chat (2)
[Terrorist @ 10:05 PM]: Fuck^[The English word, unadapted. This is common in youth slang.] the whole {government|(parliamentary sense)} in norway today. They're just ruining the country even more
[Terrorist @ 10:06 PM]: Just because of the gd democracy which is ruining nordic future
[Admin @ 9:28 AM]: [Replying to previous message] Gd?
[Terrorist @ 9:39 AM]: [Replying to previous message] It stands for goddamn^[In the original text, it was jwl being short for jævla. This isn't a texting slang I'm familiar with, and it struck me how the abbreviation uses a w whereas the unabbreviated word uses a v. I was frankly ready to assume jwl was some sort of weird play on the English word "Jew", but evidently jwl is just a perfectly normal bit of texting slang used by young people regardless of political ideology, and the use of a w instead of a v is just an aesthetic choice.]
[Admin @ 9:40 AM]: Oh I see, I'd never seen that [slang term] before
[Terrorist @ 9:40 AM]: [Replying to previous message] Well now you know
[END OF TRANSCRIPT]
During a Monday press conference, Oslo's Police Prosecutor^[Tr-ex curiously did not have the official translation of politiadvokat anywhere in its corpus; I found it on Norwegian Wikipedia.] Philip Green stated that the man has now been charged with terrorism.
—"As the case stands now, we believe that he intended to create fear in a share of the population. And this is why he is now being charged with terrorism," Green said.
Descriptions of pictures
Picture 1 (below subheadline): The accused 18-year-old with a blurred face, wearing a suit and tie and holding a rose, standing in front of what appears to be a stave church's door or something.
Picture 2 (bottom of "Has lived in Norway for a long time" section): A woman entering a building wearing protective equipment including a white suit, surgical mask, and hair cap or whatchamacallit. She appears to be holding a roll of brown paper. Presumably crime scene cleanup of some sort. Credited to Terje Bendiksby for the Norwegian News Agency (Norsk Telegrambyrå / NTB).
Picture 3 (bottom of "Active member of a shooting club" section): The accused 18-year-old again with a blurred face, now in some sort of mossy outdoorsy environment. He is wearing a knit cap, camo pants, and blue raincoat, and is holding a rifle in his right hand and a dead rock ptarmigan in his left.