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According to the district court judge Kjetil Gjøen states that the'' initial perjury Petter Northug did not cause an aggravation of the sentence. Meanwhile, new reports coming from the sponsors of the Norwegian.
Wednesday 7 May 2014 2 minutes reading time
Gjøen states that the Norwegian law, an accused may refuse to answer questions or give evidence, and that can not be punished for it. If he tried to blame it on someone else would have been a different matter, since he could be charged with perjury. Therefore should not suffer any aggravating because of his prior testimony.
Meanwhile, almost all of the sponsors of Northug have confirmed that they will continue to support him despite what happened, missing only Audi'' s appeal and Coop Norway will decide soon. '' The general approach seems to be to not abandon the'' athlete, despite the strong condemnation of the'' event, away from the values ​​of the two companies.
Meanwhile, the mayor of the city of Inderøy, in which the name of the stadium of the fund is dedicated to Petter Northug, states that it is being the decision to maintain or change the name of the stadium itself, as seen'' s happened, it can not be regarded as a model to follow. This would be the second position in this regard, after that of the ski school Aure.
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