Matapour believed he was being persecuted

The ex-husband claimed several times that he was being stalked and monitored.

Among other things, he believed that he was eavesdropped at home.

In 2019, Matapour was arrested and charged after shots were fired at a home in Oslo.

After this incident, Matapour became more concerned that he was being stalked and eavesdropped, according to his ex-wife.

Thought he was being watched by the police

She explained about their relationship in the Oslo district court on Tuesday.

– He began to constantly feel that someone was following him. It was daily, she explained in court.

She remembers that there were periods when Matapour would wear jackets doubled up when he was going into the shop.

This was so that he would leave the store as a “different” person.

They hardly lived together during the period they were together.

But he often pointed this out by saying that he was being monitored by, among other things, the police, says his ex-wife.

– He thought the police had fixed some things in the lamps, so they could hear what we were talking about.

She would later learn that Matapour had a diagnosis. She didn’t know this when they got together.

The ex-wife was asked questions by the court-appointed experts who have spent a long time assessing Matapour’s mental health.

Reasonable or not?

One of the main questions in the trial is whether Matapour is criminally sane or not.

The three court-appointed psychiatrists have reached different conclusions. According to VG’s information, Synne Sørheim has reached a conclusion that points in the direction that the 44-year-old charged with terrorism may be criminally insane.

She believes, among other things, that Matapour is chronically paranoid schizophrenic.

Pål Grøndahl and Knut-Petter Sætre Langlo, on the other hand, believe that Matapour has a paranoid and dyssocial personality disorder and is criminally sane.

This is revealed in two forensic psychiatric reports that VG has obtained insight into.

The reason why the investigations have ended up in two reports of nearly 200 pages each is due to internal disagreement between the experts about Matapour’s state of health.

On Tuesday, the three court-appointed experts will start by going through their statements and investigations of Matapour.

Ultimately, it is up to the court to decide whether or not Matapour was sane at the time of the crime.

Two people were killed and 21 people injured in the shooting in Oslo on the night of 25 June 2022.

Matapour has been charged with aggravated terrorism after the deadly attack in central Oslo.

He fired 19 shots, according to the indictment.

He has not allowed himself to be questioned by the police about the incident.

The defendant has also not wanted to explain himself in court so far.