Fearing meetings with Jon Gelius – VG

Silver Boys conductor Fredrik Otterstad, concedes that the trial and plot battle with NRK profile Jon Gelius is very uncomfortable and difficult.

– I think the process has been very uncomfortable. Really feel that I have not initiated anything. Has never sent an inquiry first. I’ve never done anything other than to respond to inquiries from Jon Gelius, alleges Fredrik Otterstad.

Sølvguttene-conductor has just finished his part explanation in Oslo District Court trial where Jon Gelius and his wife Anne sued couple Fredrik Otterstad and Ingrid K. Lohne. Yesterday there was judicial inspection in the garden which is utgangspuntket for controversy.

Otterstad and Lohne bought in spring 2012 section 1 Boligsameiet Linhusveien 22 at Roa in Oslo. In May took Gelius initiative for a first meeting of the joint owners.

– How did you encounter, it was a pleasant meeting, ask Otterstad counsel, lawyer Irene Lund Eker.

– Yes, answers Otterstad hesitant.

He is clearly uncomfortable as he stands in the witness box.

NABO DISPUTES: This semi-detached in Røa in Oslo, and the garden around, is basically the battle between Jon Gelius and Fredrik Otterstad.

Photo: Jan Petter Lynau , VG

– Must watch me

– I’ve learned that I have to guard me a little for these meetings, because there are constantly new arguments from Gelius that boundaries be moved corresponding conductor.

– What did you talk about in the meeting, ask the lawyer.

– We talked about when the house was last painted. Such things. Then came the question of boundaries. We had hoped that Gelius would moderate its demands, but it came quite clear that he had not.

TV PROFILE: Jon Gelius have included NRK’s ​​USA -korrespondent. Here photographed at the White House.

Photo: Thomas Nilsson , VG

– Gelius said: “I and my wife have decided, we will never give us,” recalls the director.

In our became clear that the case ends up in court.

Central to the conflict stands a usufruct agreement from 1997, the same year as the family Gelius moved into Linhusveien, which means that Otterstad got allocate a larger share of a communal garden area in residential condominium.

– We did see usufruct agreement, which has been discussed many times and was told that neighbors disagreed with the content. We realized that there had been many disputes probably bickering, tells Otterstad.

– Being afraid

The neighboring conflict seems completely deadlocked.

The second day of the trial was initiated by the lawyer to Gelius, Torkjell Solbø, announced that last night was tabled a proposal for a solution, a settlement, which meant that the matter would be settled out of court.

But Otterstad and his wife rejected the offer.

SØLVGUTTENE: Fredrik Otterstad has been conductor and musical director of Søvlguttene ago 2008. This is from a Christmas concert in Kongsberg church in 2009.

Photo: Espen Bratlie

– We have documented some settlement offer, it says nowhere that Gelius to own part of your property, ask a lawyer Solbø.

– Certainly, there are map sketches. I get scared. Have been very careful to consult Gelius, because I find it threatening, acknowledges Fredrik Otterstad.

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