Police have charged a teenager for his alleged role in the group bashing of a Norwegian tourist at St Kilda Pier last week.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old man from Deer Park turned himself in to police on Wednesday evening and was charged with assault, intentionally causing injury, robbery, affray and theft.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old victim from Norway was visiting St Kilda Pier on Thursday last week when he was approached by a large group of people aged in their late teens to early 20s.<\/p>\n
The group accused the victim of taking photos of people on the pier, but despite the tourist offering to show his phone screen to the group, they chased him down and allegedly assaulted him.<\/p>\n
Police allege the attackers broke the man\u2019s arm and stole his mobile phone, before throwing it into the bay.<\/p>\n
The victim had intended to spend Christmas in Australia, but returned to Norway shortly after the alleged assault.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be confronted, particularly in the middle of the day \u2026 he was just overwhelmed, he was shocked,\u201d Detective Senior Constable Jesse Coppel told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis behaviour doesn\u2019t belong here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged a teenager for his alleged role in the group bashing of a Norwegian tourist at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-369827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}