Witness saw Arjen Kamphuis in Rognan on August 20
ROGNAN (TV 2): When the man heard about the missing Wikileaks employee, he immediately contacted the police to tell him what he had seen.
"I was very stunned where he walked, with two big bags on him, and there was no doubt that he was wearing something heavy," says an eyewitness, who saw the missing Arjen Kamphuis in Rognan to TV 2.
It is Monday, August 20th and the time is around half past six. It's been a short time since the local train from Bodø to Rognan has arrived at the station. From the train comes the Dutch Wikileaks associate.
At the same time, what is one of the police's safest witnesses is on the way from Saltdalshallen and on the way to Rognan center.
TV 2 has talked to the man who does not want his name and photo published:
"I had picked up my daughter on training and drove the same road that goes from the train station and down to Rognan center. Then I see a man walking with something that looks like a big bump under the arm and a big bag on the back walking along the walkway. He looks like a backpacker or as a bohemian," says the witness in an exclusive interview with TV 2.
"He did not fit into the typical environment here at Rognan, so I noticed this person," explains the witness.
He has an apartment complex located in the harbor at Rognan. This Monday there is the football game on television.
"I and some friends are looking at the game Bodø / Glimt. Between two games I get up and look from the window and beyond the harbor. Then I see the same person coming on the road and down to the shore with the same bags, says the witness.
- What time is it then?
"About 20 in the evening. I notice that there is some activity on the dock in connection with the loading of fiber cables from the local cable factory here at Rognan," the witness says.
- What are you thinking?
"I thought he would probably work with the local boat builder who often receives trainees," he explains.
Around 21 o'clock he looks again from the window. Then he will see the person in the same area.
"This time he has no luggage with him as he walks towards the shore again," he explains.
When he hears about it missing Arjen Kamphuis ten days later, he contacts the police in Bodø to tell about his observations and is called for questioning.
September 11th, a recreational fisherman finds an empty kayak and what is probably the Kamphuis's id-papers in the sea at the Kvænfjåget mountain in Skjerstadfjorden.
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