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Trial of Anders Behring Breivik Opens in Norway - NYTimes.com

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Gunman in Norway Claims Self-Defense as Trial Begins

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Anders Behring Breivik saluted as he entered the courtroom in Oslo on Monday morning.

OSLO — By turns defiant, impassive and, just once, tearful, a self-described anti-Islamic militant who admitted carrying out Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity last year, killing 77 people including scores of young people at a summer camp on a tranquil, wooded island, went on trial here on Monday proclaiming that he had acted in self-defense, bore no criminal guilt and rejected the authority of the court.
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In remarkable evidence played to a packed and shocked courtroom, recordings of cellphone calls made by the gunman to the police suggested that he had tried twice to give himself up and had simply gone on killing in the absence of officers to accept his surrender. In the period after the first call to his final shot being fired, prosecutors said, 41 people died.
The gunman, Anders Behring Breivik, 33, has admitted on several occasions that he carried out the rampage on July 22, in which 69 people were shot and killed on Utoya Island, near Oslo, where the youth wing of the governing Labor Party was holding a summer camp. Hours earlier, a car bombing in central Oslo killed eight people.
As the grisly evidence unfolded, and some of the bereaved families and survivors in the courtroom sobbed inconsolably, Mr. Breivik remained mostly impassive, and at one point seemed to discreetly stifle a yawn. Only as the court viewed a video that Mr. Breivik had made before the attacks to publicize his cause, did he break down in tears, dabbing at his face.
Asked by a judge on Monday whether he wished to plead guilty, Mr. Breivik said, “I acknowledge the acts, but I don’t plead guilty as I claim I was doing it in self-defense.” He had previously denied criminal responsibility on the grounds that he was protecting Norway from Islamic immigration.
Mr. Breivik showed no emotion on Monday as the prosecutor, Inga Bejer Engh, solemnly and painstakingly intoned the names of the dead. “I do not recognize the Norwegian courts,” Mr. Breivik said at another point in the hearing. “You have received your mandate from political parties which support multiculturalism. I do not acknowledge the authority of the court.”
Hundreds of reporters and video crews have flooded into Oslo to cover Mr. Breivik’s hearings, which are evoking both drama and outrage as Norway relives the horror last summer that shattered its self-image as a well-ordered place of relative tranquillity and tolerance.
The bloody intrusion of urban terrorism into ordinary lives was rekindled in dozens of images of wreckage and explosions recorded by security cameras at the time of the Oslo bombing — before the killings on Utoya — and shown to the court on Monday, prompting survivors, bereaved families and journalists to gasp in shock, some of them covering their mouths with their hands.
Then, in perhaps the most wrenching moment of the first day’s hearing, the court heard a two-minute recording of the voice of an unidentified girl hiding in a toilet on the island. “He’s coming. He’s coming. Please...”
Then there was only the sound of shots being fired.
In e time it took the police to hear that brief call on July 22, prosecutors said, seven more people had died. Since then there has been much questioning of why the police took more than an hour to reach the island after the gunman launched into the attack. When officers did finally arrive, Mr. Breivik surrendered.
In the second call offering to surrender, Mr. Breivik could be heard describing himself as a commander of an organization called the Knights Templar.
“My name is Anders Behring Breivik. I’m a commander of the Norwegian Resistance Movement. Could you give me the head of Delta?” he said, apparently referring to an elite police unit. “I’m on Utoya. I’m a person who wishes to surrender,” he said, claiming to have successfully completed an “operation.”
“Since it has been completed, it is time to give myself up to Delta,” he said and then rang off. At least 11 more people were killed before he did, in fact, turn himself in, prosecutors said.
The prosecution also showed a photograph of the island with a moving electronic red line showing the progression of the killings. As the line made its way around the island, Svein Holden, a prosecutor, paused it to read out the name of the victim who died at that point.
As he entered the courtroom dressed in a dark suit on Monday, Mr. Breivik offered a display of defiance, delivering a clenched-fist salute with his right arm thrust rigidly out from his body, but shook hands with court officers.
In a manifesto posted online shortly before the attacks last year, Mr. Breivik described the gesture as the salute of the Knights Templar organization, which he claimed to have founded a decade ago. Prosecutors said in court on Monday that the group did not exist, apparently contradicting Mr. Breivik’s initial assertions that he acted as part of a broader conspiracy rather than as a so-called lone wolf.
Sporting a neatly trimmed, thin beard tracing his chin and jaw line, he seemed to alternate between nervous perusal of notes — some reports said the papers he was reading listed the names of his victims — and smirks toward photographers.
Asked to identify himself, he gave his name and denied a court official’s statement that he was unemployed and lived in prison. “That is not correct,” he said. “I am a writer and I work from prison.”
As the case resumed after a break for lunch, Mr. Breivik refused to join others in rising to stand when the judges re-entered the courtroom.
Mr. Breivik wants to read out a 30-minute statement that will be “the most important piece of evidence presented to the court on whether he will be found to be sane or not” when he gives evidence for the first time in his full trial on Tuesday, his lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said on Monday as the case adjourned after its first day.
“We understand the bereaved don’t want this court to be turned into a pulpit, we understand it would be hard for the families,” Mr. Lippestad said, “but he has a right as a defendant in Norwegian law to give a statement, and a human right as well.” The five judges did not immediately rule on the request.
His trial is set to last 10 weeks, with many Norwegian analysts fearing that he will use the occasion as an opportunity to broadcast his cause in a land that, like much of the Nordic region, prides itself on a social model that discourages radicalism. The central issue facing the court is to determine his mental health.
If Mr. Breivik is deemed to have been sane when he carried out the killings, the presiding judges can sentence him to up to 21 years in prison, with a provision to keep him behind bars for longer if he is still considered dangerous. If found insane, Mr. Breivik can be kept in forced psychiatric care for as long as his illness persists.
Two court-ordered psychiatric reports have reached contradictory conclusions. The first report, last November, determined that Mr. Breivik was a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic before, during and after the attacks. The second, on April 10, said he was sane, albeit with a narcissistic personality disorder.
In a letter to the Norwegian news media on April 4, Mr. Breivik said the two psychiatrists responsible for the initial report were ideologically predisposed to pass an insanity judgment.
“Our political views are completely incompatible,” he said, restating a belief “that multiculturalism is an anti-Norwegian, hate ideology designed to deconstruct Norwegian ethnicity, Norwegian culture and traditions, and Norwegian Christianity.
“Where I believe that multiculturalists facilitate the gradual Islamic colonization of our country, they consider that Islam is a great enrichment for Norway and Europe.”
Mr. Lippestad, Mr. Breivik’s lawyer, has proposed calling witnesses from extreme ends of the political spectrum to demonstrate that Mr. Breivik’s fears of Muslim colonization were not fantasies.
Among them is Mullah Krekar, an Iraqi-born Islamist cleric who moved to Norway in 1991 and was sentenced to five years in prison in March for making death threats against Norwegian officials and three Kurds.
Ron Atle, the leader of a far-right group, and Carl Hagen, the former leader of the mainstream anti-immigration Progress Party, will also be called, prompting claims from prominent Norwegian lawyers that Mr. Lippestad was planning to turn the trial into “a circus.”
But the appetite among Norwegians for more coverage of the killings seems limited.
Saturation newspaper coverage since the attacks and three pretrial courtroom appearances have left many people in the country wanting to see less of Mr. Breivik.
Dagbladet, the country’s second-largest daily, has even introduced a Breivik-free version of its Web site for the duration of the trial.

Mark Lewis reported from Oslo, and Alan Cowell from London.


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    April 16, 2012

    Gunman in Norway Claims Self-Defense as Trial Begins



    OSLO — By turns defiant, impassive and, just once, tearful, a self-described anti-Islamic militant who admitted carrying out Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity last year, killing 77 people including scores of young people at a summer camp on a tranquil, wooded island, went on trial here on Monday proclaiming that he acted in self-defense, bore no criminal guilt and rejected the authority of the court.
    In remarkable evidence played to a packed and shocked courtroom, recordings of cellphone calls made by the gunman to the police suggested that he tried twice to give himself up and simply went on killing in the absence of officers to accept his surrender. In the period after the first call to his final shot being fired, prosecutors said, 41 people died.
    Anders Behring Breivik, 33, has admitted on several occasions that he carried out the rampage on July 22, in which 69 people were shot and killed on Utoya Island, near Oslo, where the youth wing of the governing Labor Party was holding a summer camp. Hours earlier, a car bombing in central Oslo killed eight people.
    As the grisly evidence unfolded, and some of the bereaved families and survivors in the courtroom sobbed inconsolably, Mr. Breivik remained mostly impassive, and at one point seemed to a reporter watching him to stifle a yawn. Only as the court viewed a video that Mr. Breivik had made before the attacks to publicize his cause, did he break down in tears, dabbing at his face.
    Asked by a judge on Monday whether he wished to plead guilty, Mr. Breivik said, “I acknowledge the acts, but I don’t plead guilty as I claim I was doing it in self-defense.” He had previously denied criminal responsibility on the ground that he was protecting Norway against Islamic immigration.
    Mr. Breivik showed no emotion on Monday as the prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh solemnly and painstakingly intoned the names of the dead. “I do not recognize the Norwegian courts,” Mr. Breivik said at another point in the hearing. “You have received your mandate from political parties which support multiculturalism. I do not acknowledge the authority of the court.”
    Hundreds of reporters and video crews have flooded into Oslo to cover Mr. Breivik’s hearings, which are evoking both drama and outrage as Norway relives the horror last summer that shattered its self-image as a well-ordered place of relative tranquillity and tolerance.
    The bloody intrusion of urban terrorism into ordinary lives was rekindled in dozens of images of wreckage and explosions recorded by security cameras at the time of the Oslo bombing — before the killings on Utoya — and shown to the court on Monday, prompting survivors, bereaved families and journalists to gasp in shock, some of them covering their mouths with their hands.
    Then, in perhaps the most wrenching moment of the first day’s hearing, the court heard a two-minute recording of the voice of an unidentified girl hiding in a toilet on the island. “He’s coming. He’s coming. Please...”
    Then there was only the sound of shots being fired.
    In e time it took the police to hear that brief call on July 22, prosecutors said, seven more people had died. Since then there has been much questioning of why the police took more than an hour to reach the island after the gunman launched into the attack. When officers did finally arrive, Mr. Breivik surrendered.
    In the second call offering to surrender, Mr. Breivik could be heard describing himself as a commander of an organization called the Knights Templar.
    “My name is Anders Behring Breivik. I’m a commander of the Norwegian Resistance Movement. Could you give me the head of Delta?” he said, apparently referring to an elite police unit. “I’m on Utoya. I’m a person who wishes to surrender,” he said, claiming to have successfully completed an “operation.”
    “Since it has been completed, it is time to give myself up to Delta,” he said and then rang off. At least 11 more people were killed before he did, in fact, turn himself in, prosecutors said.
    The prosecution also showed a photograph of the island with a moving an electronic red line showing the progression of the killing. As the line made its way around the island, Svein Holden, a prosecutor, paused it to read out the name of the victim who died at that point.
    As he entered the courtroom dressed in a dark suit on Monday, Mr. Breivik offered a display of defiance, delivering a clenched-fist salute with his right arm thrust rigidly out from his body, but shook hands with court officers.
    In a manifesto posted online shortly before the attacks last year, Mr. Breivik described the gesture as the salute of the Knights Templar organization, which he claimed to have founded a decade ago. Prosecutors said in court on Monday that the group did not exist, apparently contradicting Mr. Breivik’s initial assertions that he acted as part of a broader conspiracy rather than as a so-called lone wolf.
    Sporting a neatly trimmed, thin beard tracing his chin and jaw line, he seemed to alternate between nervous perusal of notes — some reports said the papers he was reading listed the names of his victims — and smirks toward photographers.
    Asked to identify himself, he gave his name and denied a court official’s statement that he was unemployed and lived in prison. “That is not correct,” he said. “I am a writer and I work from prison.”
    As the case resumed after a break for lunch, Mr. Breivik refused to join others in rising to stand when the judges re-entered the courtroom.
    His trial is set to last 10 weeks, with many Norwegian analysts fearing that he will use the occasion as an opportunity to broadcast his cause in a land that, like much of the Nordic region, prides itself on a social model that discourages radicalism. The central issue facing the court is to determine his mental health.
    If Mr. Breivik is deemed to have been sane when he carried out the killings, the five presiding judges can sentence him to up to 21 years in prison, with a provision to keep him behind bars for longer if he is still considered dangerous. If he is found to be insane, Mr. Breivik can be kept in forced psychiatric care for as long as his illness persists.
    Two court-ordered psychiatric reports have reached contradictory conclusions. The first report, last November, determined that Mr. Breivik was a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic before, during and after the attacks. The second, on April 10, said he was sane, albeit with a narcissistic personality disorder.
    In a letter to the Norwegian news media on April 4, Mr. Breivik said the two psychiatrists responsible for the initial report were ideologically predisposed to pass an insanity judgment.
    “Our political views are completely incompatible,” he said, restating a belief “that multiculturalism is an anti-Norwegian, hate ideology designed to deconstruct Norwegian ethnicity, Norwegian culture and traditions, and Norwegian Christianity.
    “Where I believe that multiculturalists facilitate the gradual Islamic colonization of our country, they consider that Islam is a great enrichment for Norway and Europe.”
    Mr. Breivik’s lawyer Geir Lippestad has proposed calling witnesses from extreme ends of the political spectrum to demonstrate that Mr. Breivik’s fears of Muslim colonization were not fantasies.
    Among them is Mullah Krekar, an Iraqi-born Islamist cleric who moved to Norway in 1991 and was sentenced to five years in prison in March for making death threats against Norwegian officials and three Kurds.
    Ron Atle, the leader of a far-right group, and Carl Hagen, the former leader of the mainstream anti-immigration Progress Party, will also be called, prompting claims from prominent Norwegian lawyers that Mr. Lippestad was planning to turn the trial into “a circus.”
    But the appetite among Norwegians for more coverage of the killings seems limited.
    Saturation newspaper coverage since the attacks and three pretrial courtroom appearances have left many people in the country wanting to see less of Mr. Breivik, not more.
    Dagbladet, the country’s second-largest daily, has even introduced a Breivik-free version of its Web site for the duration of the trial.

    Mark Lewis reported from Oslo, and Alan Cowell from London.

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    The most difficult time came in November when the psychiatrists assessing Breivik declared that he was a paranoid schizophrenic who could not be held responsible for his actions.
    Dr Michael Stone, an expert on forensic psychiatry at Columbia University, New York, said it was a conclusion no psychiatrist in the US would have reached. "I have the impression that 'insane' in Scandinavia is more or less synonymous with 'crazy', which casts a wider net than 'insane' as a legal term," he said. "Breivik, as far as I can put together, is of a paranoid and narcissistic personality configuration, like most terrorists."
    A second assessment, commissioned by the court at the request of the victims' lawyers, concluded last week that Breivik was sane, leaving the final decision up to the judges.

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    Breivik trial: Norwegians rethink role of psychiatry in courts

    The trial of Anders Behring Breivik for the worst peacetime atrocity in Norwegian history is set to begin tomorrow, with his mental health at the crux of the case.
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    The courthouse in Oslo, Norwak, where Anders Behring Breivik will be tried.
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    By Valeria Criscione, Correspondent
    posted April 15, 2012 at 1:31 pm EDT
    OsloIn the first days after the twin terror attacks last year, Norway’s prime minister was quick to come out with a comforting message to the grieving nation. The country would respond to Anders Behring Breivik’s massacre with “more openness, more democracy,” said Jens Stoltenberg. This would not change Norwegian society.
    Nine months later, the trial for the worst peacetime atrocity in Norwegian history is set to begin tomorrow, and the country is at a crossroad.
    Norwegians have had their confidence in the judicial system shaken after two conflicting psychiatric reports have come to the opposite conclusion on Breivik’s mental standing. The first from November deemed him paranoid schizophrenic and hence legally not punishable. The second, released last week, said he was not psychotic.
    Some of the questions now being raised: Are Norwegian courts putting too much weight on forensic psychiatrist reports in determining legal sanity? And are too many criminals being incorrectly diagnosed as psychotic?
    “It is clear to me that this case will weaken the position of forensic psychiatry in Norway,” says Nils Christie, a criminal law professor at the University of Oslo. “I think it is all to the good that psychiatrists, as other experts, get decreased power in the system, and that the judges and juries regain their authority.”
    The debate has its roots from the first psychiatric report. As soon as Breivik was declared sane, many started to question the reliability of the system. How could someone who so meticulously planned a complicated attack over so many years be psychotic?
    Breivik had bought a farm and produced his own fertilizer explosives. On July 22, he planted a car bomb in front of the government building and then drove to the island of Utøya disguised as a police officer to massacre the Labor party youth at their summer camp. Prior to that, he spent years writing a 1,500-page manifesto in English detailing his crusade against the Muslim colonization of Europe.
    “Of course he is sick, but if he is insane or not, that is something else,” Eskil Pedersen, leader of Labour party youth organization AUF who escaped Utøya that day, recently told members of the Norwegian Foreign Press Association. “You can’t be normal and kill 77 people, but you can be sane in the legal way.”
    The outcry after the controversial first report has revealed Norwegians’ thirst for justice in a country otherwise known for scorning capital punishment and life sentences and promoting rehabilitation of prisoners. Suddenly victims were worried that Norway’s most notorious killer in modern times might not serve prison time – in this case 21 years – for his heinous acts. Many felt it wasn’t enough that he would be sent to compulsory mental care.
    “If the court comes to the conclusion that he is sane, and it is they who decide, I think many will feel that this is a relief,” said Jens Stoltenberg, Norway’s prime minister, during Norwegian TV2 talk show Senkveld on Friday night. “For all the victims, and all those who were affected, I think it would be an advantage if the court found him sane.”
    Psychology experts say the problem with the current system is that too many criminals have fallen into the category of psychotic. There is a call to redraft paragraph 44 in the Norwegian criminal code that states that anyone at the time of the incident was psychotic or unconscious cannot be punished.
    “In 2002 the words were changed for insane,” says PÃ¥l Abrahamsen, a Norwegian forensic psychiatrist. “It has come to be used more and more broadly. Now it’s important to make a difference between psychotic and those that are legally insane.”
    He adds: “We have to sharpen the 2002 [legal] system so that it doesn’t allow so many people to claim psychosis."
    This in fact may end up happening. Grete Faremo, Norway’s justice minister, has said that it plans to establish a committee to examine the role of forensic psychiatrists. She told Norwegian daily Aftenposten on April 13 the committee would have a “broad mandate” that would examine three key questions: What is sanity? What is the role of the forensic psychiatrist? And how do we take care of security when an insane man is sentenced?
    “Much suggests that the medical principle is inadequate,” said Faremo. “It is a historic step we are now taking. It is an important step in light of the terrible incident and the trial we face and in consideration of people's sense of justice.”
    “This is a big thing,” says Abrahamsen. “If it hadn’t been for Breivik, we wouldn’t have discussed this.”
    The ultimate decision on Breivik’s sanity will come at the end of the 10-week trial. The judges will weigh both psychiatric reports and the evidence presented during the course of the trial. There is expected to be particular emphasis on Breivik’s five-day opening testimony, which is set to start Tuesday, April 17, in deciding on whether the 33-year-old Norwegian can be held criminally accountable. The prosecution has based its indictment on the premise that Breivik is insane, while the defense plans to plea he is sane but not guilty.
    Breivik's attorney says his client has indicated it is important to him to be considered sane so that his ideology would "stand stronger." The prosecution, meanwhile, opted in March when it first presented its indictment to recommend compulsory mental care given that there was only one psychiatric report, which deemed him insane. It has left open the possibility for changing the indictment to a prison sentence during the course of the trial.
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    Breivik tears up as court views propaganda film

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    Norway mass murder suspect claims self-defense

    CNN (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎
    By Diana Magnay The man accused of killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in Norway last summer claimed self-defense on Monday. "I acknowledge the acts but do not plead guilty, and I claim I was doing it in self-defense," Anders Behring Breivik ...

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    Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in twin attacks in Norway last year, makes a salute as he enters an Oslo court on April 16, 2012. Anders Behring Breivik has his handcuffs removed as he arrives for the first day of his ...

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    Bangkok Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
    The long-awaited trial of right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who massacred 77 people in twin attacks in Norway last July, began Monday with proceedings set to focus on whether or not he is sane. Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, ...

    Breivik Claims Self Defense

    Daily Beast - ‎1 hour ago‎
    Anders Behring Breivik, the man accused of killing 77 people in Norway last summer, claimed he did so in self-defense. “I acknowledge the acts but do not plead guilty, and I claim I was doing it in self-defense.” Breivik's trial moved forward after an ...

    Norway mass killer: Massacre was in self-defense

    CBS News - ‎1 hour ago‎
    Updated at 6:02 am ET (AP) OSLO, Norway - The right-wing fanatic behind a bomb-and-shooting massacre that killed 77 people in Norway admitted to the "acts" on Monday but pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, saying he was acting in self-defense.

    Prosecutors: Breivik's network doesn't exist

    CBS News - ‎1 hour ago‎
    OSLO, Norway — A prosecutor says a Knights Templar network — claimed by a right-wing fanatic who has confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre — does not exist. Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted to killing 77 people in Norway ...

    Breivik opens Oslo murder trial with right-wing salute

    Irish Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
    File surveillance camera still image of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, dressed in police uniform and carrying a pistol as he walks away from a car after placing a bomb in Oslo on July 22nd last year. Photograph: Reuters The Norwegian ...

    Norway gunman Breivik pleads not guilty

    News24 - ‎1 hour ago‎
    Oslo - Anders Behring Breivik pleaded not guilty on Monday for his massacre of 77 people in Norway last July in a defiant start to his trial that saw him greet the Oslo courtroom with a far-right salute. While families of the victims fought back tears, ...

    Norway Gunman Breivik Admits Massacre But Pleads Not Guilty

    Voice of America (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎
    The Norwegian right-wing militant who admitting to killing 77 people in attacks last July has pleaded not guilty in court to terror and murder charges, saying he was acting in self-defense. After rejecting the court's authority, Anders Behring Breivik ...

    Anders Behring Breivik murder trial begins in Oslo

    BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
    The man who carried out a bomb and gun attack in Norway last year that left 77 people dead has gone on trial in Oslo. Anders Breivik attacked a summer youth camp organised by the governing Labour party on the island of Utoeya, after setting off a car ...

    Anders Behring Breivik: I do not recognise the Norwegian court

    Telegraph.co.uk - ‎1 hour ago‎
    Anders Breivik calmly addresses the judge within minutes of the opening of his trial to say he "does not recognise the Norweigan courts." Dressed in a black suit and light metallic brown tie, the 33-year-old right wing extremist confessed to killing 77 ...

    Anders Behring Breivik denies 'acts of terror'

    Telegraph.co.uk - ‎1 hour ago‎
    Anders Behring Breivik, the far-Right extremist has pleaded not guilty to charges he committed "acts of terror" when massacred 77 people in twin attacks in Oslo and Utoya last July. His plea came after prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh spent over an hour ...

    Norway's self-confessed mass killer Anders Breivik: I do not recognize court

    msnbc.com (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎
    First for breaking news and analysis: Compelling world news stories from msnbc.com and NBC News journalists. Follow us on Twitter. Anders Behring Breivik raises his fist as he arrives to courtroom for the first day of his trial in Oslo, Monday.

    Breivik refuses to recognise court

    News24 - ‎2 hours ago‎
    Oslo - The Norwegian anti-Islamic militant who massacred 77 people last summer arrived at an Oslo courthouse under armed guard on Monday, clenching his fist in a far-right salute and saying he did not recognise the authority of the judges.

    Norway killer Breivik admits to massacre of 77 but pleads not guilty, citing ...

    Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
    OSLO, Norway — A right-wing fanatic admitted Monday to unleashing a bomb-and-shooting massacre that killed 77 people in Norway but pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, saying he was acting in self-defense. On the first day of his long-awaited trial, ...

    Norway Mass Killer Pleads "Not Guilty" To 22/7 Terror Attacks

    Wall Street Journal - ‎2 hours ago‎
    OSLO (Dow Jones)--The Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik pled "not guilty" in Oslo District Court Monday, in response to the prosecutors' charges that he committed two acts of terrorism July 22 last year, when he killed 77 people with a car ...

    Prosecutor says Norwegian mass killer's claimed Knights Templar network does ...

    Fox News - ‎2 hours ago‎
    OSLO, Norway – Prosecutor says Norwegian mass killer's claimed Knights Templar network does not exist. Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Share This Article Newsletter Signup Sign up for free e-mail news alerts from FoxNews.com and ...
     
     
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