Originally Posted by
LuxuryRogue
Being in the mid-40s, settled, investor, boardmember (university lecturer & book author too), in a relatively expensive Radisson (€ 250-350), to be called out by a waiter to "go outside", threatened with violence and to "be taught a lesson, foreigner", in front of 20+ guests and co-travellers is an unnecessary stress and embarassment.
There was only a 10% probability of being hurt (I'm Krav Maga expert level), but a 100% chance I'd miss my flight to the North Pole Marathon (which would have left without me 3 hours later - try again next year ...).
Picture yourself in the position, you probably wouldn't be happy either.
If it happened in a seedy third world brothel, ok. But in a Radisson in Norway?
Add to this that alcohol is served aplenty, many people carry guns (against icebears), and there is no manager-on-duty (never!).
Then the GM who "apologizes" but calls my PA's letter "uneducated and uncivilized" for saying that "this migrant worker is not fit for the service industry but should rather work in the local mining or meatpacking industry". This from a Radisson GM?
BTW: the trigger was to say "unbelievable, unbelievable" when the spaghetti arrived after one hour (!) to which the waiter said "do you want the food or not?" ... "I paid for it, you better put it there" ... "My father doesn't talk to me like that!" ... "He better should have!" ... "Let's go outside ...
Thanks for a fuller description of the details of the incident.
Here is a link to an unofficial translation of the Norwegian Penal Code from the library of the University of Oslo.
http://www.ub.uio.no/ujur/ulovdata/l...22-010-eng.pdf
I am not a lawyer, but have professionally a lot to do with our court system.
I think that the relevant section here is the felony Section 227, threatening in word or deed to commit a criminal act that is punishable with more than six months of imprisonment, "
under such circumstances that the threat is likely to cause serious fear." The bolded part is the essence here (and up to the court to decide). It would be argued by the defence, that a challenge to "come outside" is not likely to cause great fear: it is certainly a nuisance and unpleasant, but not enough to convict.
In that case the misdemeanour Section 390 a) would be used: "Any person who by frightening or annoying behaviour or other inconsiderate conduct violates another person's right to be left in peace". This is a very common section for prosecutions. Section 350 about improper conduct disturbing public peace and order might be relevant, but my experience is that the police prosecutors usually use § 227 or § 390 a.
As for the GM section 347 might be of interest, but I would guess that it would be difficult to prove that one!
I presume that your lawyer in the civil case in the US will seek assistance on the niceties of the Norwegian criminal code from someone qualified before filing your suit.