Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland, who also chaired the Norwegian Nobel Committee and served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe, was reportedly hospitalised following an alleged suicide attempt amid corruption charges linked to his connections with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The development came days after Jagland was formally charged with aggravated corruption, which carries a potential 10-year prison term.
He has denied wrongdoing, describing his ties to Epstein as “unwise” or “poor judgement” and pledging full cooperation with the investigation.
Thorbjørn Jagland, former Norwegian Prime Minister and chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 2009 to 2015, was directly involved in awarding Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. As the committee’s chairman at the time, he oversaw the decision to grant the prize to Obama, a move that drew significant international attention and criticism due to Obama being less than nine months into his presidency and during ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The West is dying because our general sense of right and wrong is far too abstract and out of touch with the extremely vast majority of human cultures in the world today and throughout history. I can respect people who kill themselves over personal moral issues. But it appears Jagland was remiss on the morality of global and national politics as well. He is emblematic of of the deep failure of Westerners to live up to their own ideals while also failing to protect their own people. Notice, Epstein trafficked and sexually abused zero Jewish victims. He was as low as they come, but still. First Noble Truth — the human realm is characterized by suffering which arises out of clinging to delusion. ABN
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