Thirty-three percent of the country’s 3,642 prisoners are foreign citizens, with many Lithuanians and Poles falling foul of the criminal justice system in recent years, newspaper Bergens Tidende reports.
As a result of this, the Norwegian government has urged more Norwegians to commit more crimes to rectify the issue.
At a press conference in Oslo, Norway's prime minister, Erna Solberg said: "We need more people in Norway to start committing crimes so we can start getting these immigrants out of our prisons."
“So get out there, rob a shop, hold up an old lady, put a window through, commit serious fraud, and do it with a feeling of civic pride, you may be committing crime but you are also helping your country and that is a good thing.”
Grete Faremo, a Norwegian politician and previously head of the Minister of Justice and Police said: “We are urging Norwegian citizens to commit crimes so we can start filling up Norway's prisons with our own kind. However potential criminals are to be warned that the sentences that will be given out will be just as severe, after all we need more of you in prison.”
The government has already started a crime encouragement campaign, supported by Norwegian national broadcaster NRK. From 2014 programmes on Norwegian TV and radio will carry subliminal messages to try and brainwash people into committing crimes such as murder, which will result in lengthy prison sentences.
Flyers have also been posted in the streets of Oslo, Stavanger and Bergen urging people to break the window of the next shop or house they walk past. However the new campaign is also discouraging non-Norwegian citizens from committing crimes and requests that all foreigners remain law abiding citizens.
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