Oslo, Norway Blast & Shootings-Anders Behring Breivik responsible

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/04/23/norway-mass-killer-claims-racist-plot-to-cast-him-as-insane/
Norway mass killer claims 'racist' plot to cast him as insane
April 23, 2012

OSLO, Norway –  Anxious to prove he's not insane, confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik told a court Monday that questions about his mental health are part of a racist plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim ideology.

Breivik, who has admitted to killing 77 people in a bombing and youth camp massacre, said that no one would have asked for a psychiatric examination had he been a "bearded jihadist."

"But because I am a militant nationalist, I am being subjected to grave racism," he said. "They are trying to delegitimize everything I stand for."

Breivik rejects criminal guilt for the rampage on July 22, saying the victims had betrayed their country by embracing immigration.

Even the defense admits there is virtually no chance of an acquittal, so the key issue to be determined in the trial is whether Breivik is criminally insane.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/9221909/Anders-Behring-Breivik-phoned-police-to-surrender-but-carried-on-when-they-failed-to-return-call.html
Anders Behring Breivik phoned police to surrender but carried on when they failed to return call
By Audrey Andersen, Oslo
April 23, 2012

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303592404577361970443656012.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
One Norway Killer Evaluation Said Flawed
April 23, 2012

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As the ten-week trial of Anders Behring Breivik entered its sixth day, the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine cast a shadow over the latest psychiatric report that on April 10 deemed Mr. Breivik sane. Two separate psychiatric evaluations with conflicting conclusions of Mr. Breivik's mental state are at the heart of the 10-week trial, and will help the five judges determine whether Mr. Breivik should be sentenced to compulsory mental care, if deemed insane, or to prison for a maximum of 21 years, with the possibility of indefinite extension, if deemed sane.

The board, which exercises quality control over evaluations, said the evaluation conducted by psychiatrists Agnar Aspaas and Terje Torrisen lacked information about Mr. Breivik's childhood and sufficient consideration of the possibility that Mr. Breivik's apparent sanity was an act designed to dupe the experts. Dr. Aspaas told the court additional information will be handed in by the end of the week, with no delay to the trial. Prosecutors said that the commissions' demand for additional information did not affect its view about Mr. Breivik's sanity.
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Forensic psychologist Pal Grondahl said that six days into the trial, the court probably hasn't come any nearer to a definite conclusion on Mr. Breivik's status. "We have heard many strange things [from Mr. Breivik], but nothing that would obviously categorize him as insane," Mr. Grondahl said.

However, he added, although Mr. Breivik may give an impression of sanity, it is impossible to discount the possibility that he is deliberately putting on an act.

"If you have delusions you may understand that other people find it strange, and adjust to that," Mr. Grondahl says.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/us-norway-breivik-protest-idUSBRE83P0IB20120426?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71
Tens of thousands protest at Norway Breivik trial
April 25, 2012

(Reuters) - Up to 40,000 Norwegians staged an emotionally-charged sing-along in Oslo on Thursday near the court house where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the murder of 77 people in a protest organizers said showed he had not broken their tolerant society.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0426/Breivik-slam-on-Rainbow-song-an-insult-too-far-for-Norwegians
Breivik slam on 'Rainbow' song an insult too far for Norwegians
Anders Behring Breivik said in testimony last week that a popular Norwegian song promoting tolerance is a Marxist brainwashing tool, but 40,000 Norwegians turned out today to reject that.
By Valeria Criscione, Correspondent
April 26, 2012

Oslo

Forty thousand Norwegians marched and sang in Oslo today in an impromptu protest against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik for calling the popular children's song “Children of the Rainbow” a Marxist song used to brainwash youth.
The man behind last summer’s twin terror attacks said in court testimony last week that the Norwegian song by Lillebjørn Nilsen, based on US folksinger Pete Seeger’s original version “My Rainbow Race” in 1967, was an example of how Norwegian schools function as an “indoctrination camp” for “cultural Marxism and multiculturalism.”
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Breivik’s comments prompted Norwegians Christine Bar and Lill Hjønnevåg to organize via Facebook a gathering at Youngstorget, the square in front of the Labor party headquarters. It is adjacent to Breivik's bombing target and just blocks from Oslo District Court, where Breivik is currently on trial for killing 77 people total in the two July 2011 attacks.
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2114602,00.html
Shoe-Thrower Interrupts Breivik Trial
By AP / JULIA GRONNEVET
May 11, 2012

OSLO, Norway) — The trial of Anders Behring Breivik was interrupted briefly Friday when the brother one of his 77 victims hurled a shoe at the confessed mass killer and yelled, "Go to hell," before being escorted from the court room, police and witnesses said.

It was the first outburst from the normally subdued crowd watching the terror trial in Oslo's district court since the proceedings began in mid-April.
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Throwing of shoes to insult someone has long been a form of protest in many countries, but the practice gained widespread attention when an Iraqi threw his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush at a televised news conference in Baghdad in 2008 during the Iraq war.

Police didn't identify the shoe-thrower in Oslo but said he was the brother of one of the victims.
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OMGosh!  How horrific!   


http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/15/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/?hpt=wo_c2
Man sets himself on fire outside Breivik trial court in Norway
May 15, 2012

(CNN) -- A man set himself on fire Tuesday outside the court in Norway's capital, Oslo, where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial over terrorist attacks last summer that killed 77 people.

"We don't know much about his motives, but he set himself alight outside the courthouse. Police were quick to put the fire out, and he has now been taken to hospital," Unni Groendal, head of media for Oslo police, told CNN.

The man, whose identity is not known, was given first aid treatment on site, according to police.

He did not try to force his way through the cordon outside the district courthouse as some reports have suggested, police said.
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Video posted on the VG website shows the man running toward the court building with his hat and jacket on fire. Police officers then pull off his clothing and try to extinguish the flames as he lies on the ground.

The area has been cordoned off, police told CNN.

The incident happened about 1:45 p.m. local time (7:45 a.m. ET), according to Norwegian TV channel TV2.
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What was the purpose of setting yourself on fire except to show that you're as nutty as the defendant?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18068823
Breivik trial: Utoeya survivor heard 'worst screaming'
May 15, 2012

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Barricades

Earlier the court heard from Ms Svendsen, 17, who had adjusted her chair away from Breivik as she began her testimony.

She told how after she had been shot in the arm she ran through a field of tents. "It was perhaps the worst screaming I've ever heard" she told the court.

She described removing her jacket and seeing a hole in her arm. A first aider then led her into a building known as the school house, she said.
grabbed the door handle and how she was convinced he would kill them all. People later hid under beds as Breivik shot at them through the windows, she told the court.

Another witness, first aider Even Andre Kleppen, told how he brought a group of people to the school house to shelter.

They barricaded the windows and doors. He then watched through the glass in the front door as Breivik calmly walked towards it and tried to shoot his way in, he said.

All 47 people who hid in the school house survived.
Firecrackers

The Oslo court also heard from survivor Ina Rangoenes Libak, who was shot four times.

She told the court that when she first heard the shots, she thought they were firecrackers.

When she realised what was happening, she and two others hid behind a piano in the cafe she was working in.

When shot in the arms she explained that she thought she could survive; when hit in the jaw she thought that was more serious; when realising she had been shot in the chest, she told the court: "That you die from."

Showing the court a scar on her arm, she explained that she lost feeling in both her arms when she was hit.

She ran away down a corridor, and told the court she was thinking: "this is what it's like to die, I'm dying."

Outside the building, she and others tried to use rocks to stem the bleeding. While they helped each other, they heard more shots, screams and then silence.

A friend said "they're dying, they're dying, we must help them", she told the court.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/21/anders-behring-breivik-survivors-recall-shooting-spree-the-water-was-red/
Anders Behring Breivik survivors recall shooting spree: ‘The water was red’
Pierre-Henry Deshayes, Agence France-Presse
May 21, 2012

OSLO — Young people wounded in Norway’s Utoeya massacre described in harrowing detail Monday how they were shot at and saw friends gunned down by Anders Behring Breivik in his shooting rampage last July.

“There, I saw all the dead. The water was red” with blood, 20-year-old Hussein Kazemi told an Oslo court, describing the moment when he climbed back on land after throwing himself into the icy water to escape the massacre on the island of Utoeya on July 22.
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http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/survivor-i-saw-breivik-kill-10-of-my-friends/116342/
Survivor: I Saw Breivik Kill 10 of My Friends
May 22, 2012

A Norwegian girl shot by extremist Anders Breivik watched as he killed her 10 friends at point blank range, a court has heard, reports Sky News.

Marte Fevang Smith, 18, said she was the only survivor of the group who hid at a remote location called Lovers' Path on Utoya Island.

The group had earlier called 999 to say there was shooting on the island but police told them they were mistaken and that it was a bombing in the capital Oslo.

Shortly after making the call, they were confronted by gunman Breivik wearing a police uniform.

"Breivik looked straight at me saying: 'Where is the gunman?' Then he started shooting and he hit me," Ms Smith said.

"A boy next to me stretched out his hand saying, 'I am dying.' But I did not manage to move."

Shot in the left side of the head, she remarkably survived the island massacre, which claimed the lives of 69 people.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/23/norway-shooting-massacre-survivor-calls-bullet-scars-the-price-for-democracy/
Norway shooting massacre survivor calls bullet scars ’the price for democracy’
Pierre-Henry Deshayes, Agence France-Presse
May 23, 2012

OSLO — A girl who at the age of just 14 survived Anders Behring Breivik’s shooting massacre on Utoeya island last year showed her large scars to an Oslo court Wednesday, describing them as her dues to democracy.

“I am not afraid to show my scars,” Ylva Helene Schwenke said, revealing a large red mark at the base of her neck.

“I feel like it’s a kind of victory. We have paid the price for democracy and we have won,” she added.

Many onlookers in room 250 of the Oslo district court silently showed their admiration for the now 15-year-old’s words, while Breivik looked on with the same smile that often lingers on his lips as witnesses contradict his anti-democratic ideology.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/index.html
Lawyer: Norwegian killer vows not to appeal guilty verdict if found sane
May 24, 2012

(CNN) -- Anders Behring Breivik promised Thursday that he would not appeal if a court finds him sane and guilty in charges tied to the killings of 77 people last year in Norway, his lawyer said.

"There is absolutely no reason to appeal if I am declared criminally accountable," Breivik said in court, according to his attorney, Ivar Gron.

Gron said the promise that there won't be an appeal is contingent on Norwegian judges first making a determination on his client's mental state.
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http://now.msn.com/now/0601-breivik-gets-friends
Prison to hire play pals for Norwegian mass murderer
June 1, 2012

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From what I remember reading, Breivik was upset about being found mentally incompetent and was more worried about getting psychiatric care then he was going to prison. Maybe the psychiatric care will be seem to be more of a prison for him especially since it doesn't lend a platform to his rants.  JMHO

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/21/norway-prosecutors-to-seek-psychiatric-care-not-prison-for-confessed-mass/
Norway prosecutors to seek psychiatric care, not prison for confessed mass killer Breivik
June 21, 2012

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http://now.msn.com/now/0601-breivik-gets-friends
Prison to hire play pals for Norwegian mass murderer
June 1, 2012

Sadly, this isn't surprising in such a liberal society.  And I'm afraid this type of thing is coming to the US.  All I can do is shake my head.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18547347
Defence lawyer argues Norway killer Breivik is sane
June 22, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik's defence have told his trial he should be considered sane and have sought his acquittal - a request regarded as a formality.

Lawyer Geir Lippestad told the court in Norway his client had been driven by extreme politics, not violence.

The prosecution has called for him to be considered insane.

Breivik, who admits he killed 77 people and injured 242 on 22 July, is due to address the court himself on the last scheduled day of the trial.

The request for acquittal is a formality because Breivik does not accept the charges of terrorism and premeditated murder against him.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18546623
Voices from Norway as Breivik trial ends
June 12, 2012

The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted killing 77 people, many of them teenagers, in two attacks in Norway last year, has ended and Judges will deliver their verdict in August.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/22/anders-behring-breivik-final-tirade?newsfeed=true
Anders Behring Breivik delivers final tirade to bemused court
Several people walk out of court as killer claims attacks were preventive measure to defend indigenous Norwegians
June 22, 2012

Survivors and bereaved families walked out of court on Friday as Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian confessed killer of 77 people, launched into a final tirade against multiculturalism.

In an hour-long salvo, which drew bemusement and laughter from some in the packed courtroom, he lashed out at perceived threats to "cultural conservatives" including Sex and the City and Norway's "asylum seeker" representation at the Eurovision song contest.

About a dozen people walked out of court as he began a speech which concluded with the demand that he be found innocent and acquitted.
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Earlier, parents, siblings and friends of the victims gave their final statements to the court. One interpreter sobbed into her microphone as Kirsti Løvlie told how she had lost her daughter Hanne.

"I am not going to be afraid of this man," Løvlie said. "I decided I would go to court. I felt I owed it to Hanne."

In a reversal of normal court convention, the prosecutors are demanding the Breivik be found insane and transferred to compulsory mental healthcare. Breivik claims his actions were "necessary" to prevent the Islamic colonisation of Norway, and has demanded he be found sane.

The defence lawyer Geir Lippestad evoked Breivik's "fundamental human right" to be considered sane. "The defendant has a radical political project. To make his acts something pathological and sick deprives him of his right to take responsibility for his own actions," he said.

"It is a reverse situation since they want him acquitted. I say that their plea should not be accepted, and Anders Behring Breivik should be treated as leniently as possible."

Norwegians will discover the outcome of the trial on 26 August, before which the trial's five judges must juggle the evidence from two competing psychiatric reports and 10 weeks of often contradictory evidence. The court has heard three weeks of evidence from psychiatrists alone, and at least seven different diagnoses.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18941991
Norway remembers Utoeya and Oslo victims, one year on
July 21, 2012

Norway is preparing to commemorate one year since 77 people were killed and 242 hurt in gun and bomb attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utoeya.

Church services, a concert and other events are being held around Norway.

PM Jens Stoltenberg will lay wreaths and is expected to be joined by hundreds of people on Utoeya, including the families of those who were killed.

Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted carrying out the two attacks, remains on trial.

Most of the dead were young activists with the Labour Party who had been staying on Utoeya as part of a summer camp.
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