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People faint in nightclub queue in Trondheim:


LARGE QUANTITIES: The police have established cooperation with the health service in Trondheim city center.

Several people have fainted in the queues for nightclubs in Trondheim city center. At 23.30, the police say that there is a good atmosphere in the city.

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– There are such large crowds out in the center of Trondheim now. Outside the nightclubs, long queues pile up, and people push to get inside. It simply means that people are out of breath, says operations manager in Trøndelag police district, Solfrid Lægdheim, to VG.

There are large crowds in the center of the capital of Trøndelag in connection with the reopening of the community earlier this afternoon.

She says that the police have established cooperation with the health service, which is in place in the city center to take care of people who may need it.

– Those we have out there who have worked out in Trondheim for many, many years, have never seen the like, she says.

When VG calls the police again at 11.30 pm, the operations manager says that the situation has calmed down.
– There is a good atmosphere and a lot of people in the center, says operations manager Arnt Harald Aaslund.

There are still reports of very long queues at the nightclubs.

Aaslund says that there are no dangerous situations in Trondheim.

– We had something earlier. People are not used to standing so close to each other in line, he says.

– Afraid of being trampled to death

One of those who stood in the huge crowd was Sara Emilie Thode, who is out to celebrate the reopening with a friend.

– We were pushed all the way, and in the end we just had to get out of the queue, because I was terrified of being trampled to death, she says.

She says that they stood in the queue from 9 pm, but that after 20 minutes they had to give up because it was so uncomfortable to be pushed around by the crowd. She also says that she saw people who had panic attacks in the crowd, and she can well imagine that people could faint in the queue.

– It was only as far as we managed to get out of the queue, she says.

Address reports that the popular nightclub Downtown in the center of Trondheim had to let guests in 20 minutes before opening, to avoid even more queues.

Hundreds of people

Photographer Joakim Halvorsen stands outside the nightclub Downtown in Trondheim.

– There are an estimated 2,000 people here, without me counting every single one, he says to VG.

He says that he has seen the police lead people away from the queues to the nightclubs and that ambulance personnel have picked up people who have fainted.

– Some people have been strewn on the street corners, and there are several who have spit outside here. They have nothing to do in a queue, says Halvorsen.

But overall, the mood is good, he reports.

– It’s such a good mood here. Evenly there is a party and leather vest, as we say here in Trøndelag.

Halvorsen says that he has talked to sober people who come to the party streets just to see the “Texas atmosphere” that is there.

– Assess what you spend time on

In Oslo, the police have not received reports that people have fainted in the long queues in the capital. But that it is long queues, that is for sure.

– There are a lot of people in the city center, and the nightclubs do not have the capacity to accommodate more guests. They stay in line, and it piles up with people, says operations manager Tor Gulbrandsen to VG.

He says that they have taken traffic regulation measures in the city center so that the traffic is locked away from the queues.

– I do not want to go so far as to say that people should end the party, but people must consider what they should spend their time on. If nightclubs say that they can not take in more, and there are many people in front of you in the queue, then the individual must judge for themselves, he says.

Pushing and fighting in Bergen

In Bergen, operations manager in the West Police District, Øyvind Hellesund, reports large crowds in the city center.

There are mostly people outside Ricks, on Torgallmenningen and by Zachen, according to Hellesund.

– There has been some pushing in the queues outside the nightclubs, and one person has been taken to the emergency room after a fight. There was one who made noise in a nightclub, but left the place after he was asked to do so, says Hellesund.

The operations manager characterizes the situation in general as under control.

– Despite such large crowds, and that it is Saturday, things are going well. Then we get to look overnight, says Hellesund.

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