The Norwegian friends, of Martine Vik
Magnussen, who was murdered in London, last
weekend, says that they aren't recognising
the picture the British media are painting
around her death.
So I thought I'd try to translate a Norwegian
newspaper-article about this subject.
We didn't know her as a 'jet-set'.
Martine Vig Magnussens best friends aren't
recognising the way she's being described in
the media.
The friends, have chosen to speak openly
about Martine to [Norwegian newspaper]
Dagbladet. They want people to get the right
picture of the friend they have had so dear
in all years.
– The English newspaper Daily Mail, wrote
that she was a girl who was partying in the
jetset/upper class-society. But Martine have
never been a girl that has got unlimited
founds from home, and she didn't live a
jetset-life. Even if we are from Nesøya [A
quite posh island/half-island right outside
of Oslo], none of us do. We are normal
Norwegians who work to pay for the things we
buy. Martine was not spoiled. She has been
working in clothing-shops like 'Grinny' in
Bygdøy Alle in Oslo, and in the European
chain Mainmo Dutti, one of her best friends,
Henriette Aspaas Martens say.
She finds it not right to link Martine to a
jetset/socialite-society/life, that amongst
others, Norwegian shiping-company billionare
John Fredriksens daugters are connected
with.
– we didn't know her as a jetset. Martine was
a down to earth kind of girl. It's horrific
to see how some of the media, especially
Britsh newspapers, are painting a wrong
picture of Martine.
Henritte Marie Hansson was a childhood friend
of the killed 23-year old.
– Martine was wonderful, she always helped
everybody, and was trustworthy. I've known
her since I was very young. She was like a
sister to me, Hansson says.
In 2006, Martine went to Poland, to study
medicine, but she came back after half a
year, since she didn't like it there. In the
beginning of 2007, she went to London, and
worked there for half a year, before she
started studying on Regents College, last
automn.
Many friends.
Henritte Aspaas Martens tells that they
didn't have time to speak a lot about
Martine's life in London.
– She always had friends around her. We kept
in contact, and have met in holdays. She was
a person one could trust, and which one could
tell everything to. She could keep secrets,
Martens says.
The group of friends, had planned a
dinner-party, when Martine, acording to
plans, was supposed to back home for the
easter-holidays. They were speaking with her
on Thursday. The group of friends, who
now are living spread around in different
Norwegian and foreign towns, have now changed
their plans for easter, to be together in
mourning.
– Now it's best to be home in Oslo. We find
comfort and support in eachother. This is so
unreal. I can still not understand that this
has happend to my Martine. Our Martine.
Martens tells that Martine had good
fashion-sence, and that she had always been
hard-working and determened.
The childhood friends, had never heard of the
21-year old sought after by the police,
before Martine disappeared.
– From what we now have heard, they were only
good friends.
Martine knew a lot of people, both in London
and at home in Norway. From what Dagbladet
knows, daugter of famous Norwegian
TV-celebrity Halvard Flatland, was one of her
many friends. The two of them were neighbours
on Nesøya, and have for many years been part
of the same group of friends.
(There is more, but the rest is from the
family etc., so I'm not sure if I should
translate any more. I Just thought I'd try to
translate some of it, since it was said in
the article, that
the media in Britain, had painted a wrong
picture of her lifestyle, with the media in
Britain saying that she was lived a jet-set
lifestyle, which she didn't according to her
Norwegian friends in Oslo etc.
So I thought I'd try to translate a bit of
the newspaper-article, since I sometimes
think it seems, for some reason, that the
English-speaking media, sometimes present the
news-stories, that are from the
Scandinavian countries, a bit different than
they are presented in Scandinavia, for some
reason. So I thought I could just try to
translate a bit of the article.).
www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/03/19/530
139.html
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