Police Report Filed After Incident
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Police Report Filed After Incident at Martin Ødegaard's Wedding

The newspaper Dagbladet reports the Norwegian Football Association's security chief Geir Ellefsen to the police, after an incident at Arsenal star Martin Ødegaard's wedding on Saturday. We see the attack as very serious, says Dagbladet's editor-in-chief Frode Hansen.

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According to Hansen, Ellefsen physically removed one of the newspaper's journalists who was covering the wedding.

The reporter stood outside the privately erected barricades and filmed in a public place to cover a very public event. Then a private person attacked our reporter and prevented the journalist from doing their job, says Hansen to Dagbladet.

The editor-in-chief confirms that Ellefsen apologized after the incident.

It is a clear breach of freedom of the press. We cannot allow violence to be used against journalists and photographers on assignment, he continues.

Neither the Norwegian Football Association nor Ellefsen have commented on the incident.

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