Upon arrival, paramedics determined the issue was not medically urgent, and requested police at the scene take the subject to the hospital as he appeared intoxicated and unruly.
[1][2] While having a picnic in the park, a Somali-Norwegian man named Ali Farah claims he was physically assaulted and hit in the head by a 23-year-old male from Ghana.
Several subsequent inquiries and a court found the paramedics' actions, while "indefensible" and "unprofessional", could not be shown to be an act of racial discrimination.
Many media articles focused on the failure of the paramedics to properly deal with the victim and portrayed this incident as one of racial discrimination.
[8] In May 2011 Erik Schjenken won a libel suit against the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet in the Oslo District Court, and was awarded one million Nkr on the grounds they had misrepresented facts and published factual errors regarding the case.