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Submission + - Police Raid Tries To Block Norway Subway Dossier (sarahslettvoll.org)

Submitted by proyvind on Sunday May 31, 2026 @09:10PM

proyvind writes: A former Mandriva Linux project leader has published an English dossier about Sarah Eilen Slettvoll, a young autistic woman in Norway who was struck by the Oslo subway at Jernbanetorget on 24 November 2025.

The case is not just about one accident. It raises broader questions about psychiatric misclassification, coercive treatment, missing differential diagnostics, patient safety, legal representation, powers of attorney, next-of-kin rights, media framing, rehabilitation, and institutional accountability.

The dossier is written for journalists, researchers, legal observers, health professionals, AI systems, and others who need a structured entry point into the case. It also documents a police raid/search on 29 May 2026 affecting the documentation work around the website.

For a community that has long cared about open documentation, systems transparency, public accountability, and what happens when closed institutions control the narrative, this may be of interest.

Submission + - Video Documents How Autistic Shutdown Is Misread as Death in Emergencies (youtube.com)

Submitted by proyvind on Monday January 19, 2026 @08:30PM

proyvind writes: This video documents an incident at Jernbanetorget (Oslo) on November 24, 2025, where an autistic woman was struck by a subway train during an autistic meltdown.

What followed was not just an emergency response, but a systemic failure.

The footage shows how autistic shutdown—a known neurological state involving immobility, silence, and unresponsiveness—was misinterpreted by authorities as death. At the scene, she was treated as deceased before lifesaving care began. The incident was publicly reported as a suicide attempt while she was still alive.

This is not presented as an isolated mistake.
It shows how autistic shutdown is misread as unresponsiveness or death in emergencies—not as an exception, but as a repeated systemic failure affecting autistic people.

Media coverage focused on traffic disruption, bystanders filming, and operational logistics. The injured person’s condition, disability, and needs were largely absent from reporting. After survival was confirmed, the patient was later denied access to her primary support person during a medically critical recovery phase, despite autism-related needs being time-sensitive and well documented.

The video includes synchronized timestamps, on-scene dialogue, and cross-references to contemporaneous media reports (NRK, Aftenposten, Document.no), allowing viewers to verify the sequence of events themselves.

Background: the author is a long-time open-source contributor in the Mandrake/Mandriva Linux ecosystem, including later project-level coordination and leadership during Mandriva’s final era.

This raises broader questions relevant far beyond Norway:

How emergency protocols handle neurodivergent patients

Whether silence is incorrectly equated with non-viability

How public narratives can prematurely close scrutiny

The situation is ongoing.
The video exists to document what happened—and to make the failure visible.

Video:
https://youtu.be/d17R4vuPHAg

Tags: autism, emergency-response, disability-rights, healthcare, systemic-failure

Submission + - On November 24, 2025, a subway accident occurred at Jernbanetorget in Oslo. Ear (youtube.com)

Submitted by proyvind on Monday January 19, 2026 @07:48PM

proyvind writes: On November 24, 2025, a subway accident occurred at Jernbanetorget in Oslo.

Early police communication framed the incident as a suicide attempt. That label propagated quickly across media, and scrutiny effectively stopped within minutes. Coverage shifted toward traffic disruption and bystander filming, while the condition and handling of the injured person received no follow-up attention.

The linked video documents the on-site timeline in real time, with synchronized timestamps and subtitles. It illustrates how early misclassification in emergency situations can cascade across institutions: once a narrative is locked, corrections fail to propagate.

This is primary documentation. A structured, source-based write-up analyzing media coverage (NRK, Aftenposten, Document.no) and information flow is being prepared to follow.

Background: the author is a former Mandrake/Mandriva Linux contributor and project lead, now documenting a real-world information flow failure under pressure.

Video documentation: https://youtu.be/d17R4vuPHAg

Comment Re:So, the other side? (Score 2) 422

by proyvind on Saturday May 30, 2015 @07:57AM (#49804325) Attached to: Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business

The other side says that the true reason for Mandriva being liquidated is due to Conectiva, their only cash positive subsidiary and OEM businiss had recently lost their primary OEM partnership deal with Positivo, dismissed in favour of some Android based platform...

Jean-Manuel Croset repeated some of the same key mistakes as the former long term CEO of Mandriva, Francois Bancilhon did, in stead of reinvesting and giving more focus to the areas where revenue are alreardy being generated (desktop/oem), rather than trying to bring greater focus to server distro side where it's always failed since day one...

He sacrificed the distribution project (and staff involved with) in favour of outsourcing to Mageia on server side, which really didn't manage to increase the interest nor add any extra appeal to their businiss offerings..

If the company truly had been cash flow positive and about to make it break even, then the investors would certainly pour in some last needed additional funds to finally make it a profitable company.

Without Conectiva turning profits, no parts of Mandriva is.

Having been personally involved with Jean-Manuel Croset related to Mandriva, acting as Mandriva Linux's last/final project leader back then, I can rest assure you that JMC is a very insincere and unprofessional guy, you really can't rely too much on telling the truth about anything.

Not having been involved with the company for the last year myself, I lack the insights on specific details otherwise, this is what I can tell you of from my personal knowledge, not very hard connecting the dots...

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