Norway’s far-left leader and MP Bjørnar Moxnes resigned from his party position on Monday after being arrested for stealing designer sunglasses from a shop at Oslo Airport.
“I made a big mistake and made it worse by how I handled it afterwards”wrote Bjørnar Moxnes on his Facebook page, adding: “I’m sorry about this and I want to apologize”
On June 30, Moxnes said he had been fined 3,000 kroner (250 euros) for taking a pair of Hugo Boss sunglasses worth 1,199 kroner (about 100 euros) from a duty-free shop at Oslo Airport two weeks earlier.
The 41-year-old politician pleaded recklessness, but changed his version of the episode several times, captured by closed-circuit cameras and whose footage appears to weaken the imprudence hypothesis.
Moxnes is currently on medical leave and is resigning as leader of the opposition party Rødt (Red), which he led for 11 years and helped develop to the point where he won seven seats in parliament in the 2021 parliamentary election.
Under the rules in force in Norway, it is impossible to resign from elective positions, such as deputy, while in office.
The number two of the party so far, 37-year-old Marie Sneve Martinussen, temporarily assumes the party leadership.
Source: DN
