30,000 call for Coca Cola boycott

Around 30,000 Norwegian consumers have responded to a Facebook call for a boycott of Coca Cola products, backing the hunt for the man who murdered a Norwegian student in London three years ago.

The boycott was launched in protest against the company's business connections with a wealthy Yemeni businessman, who is the father of the murder suspect, Farouk Abdulhak (24).

The young man fled to his father’s home in Yemen just after Martine Vik Magnussen’s body was found in the basement of the apartment building in London where Abdulhak lived.

It is believed that his father, Shaher Abdulhak, is hiding his son, preventing his arrest.

Shaher Abdulhak has extensive business connections with Coca-Cola, selling their products through his company Shaher Trading, not only in Yemen, but also in Egypt and Libya.

(NRK/Aftenposten)

Wednesday, 02 March 2011 07:43