The right-wing Norwegian
extremist who has
admitted killing 77 people used
a court hearing to demand his
freedom and to be given a
military medal for combatting
“Islamic colonisation”.
Anders Behring Breivik smirked
and raised his arm in a right-
wing salute as he was led into
the Oslo district court
yesterday handcuffed and
dressed in a dark suit for the
final hearing before his trial on
April 16.
Breivik read from a prepared
statement as he boasted that
his killing spree, carried out
with a bomb, a rifle and a
handgun last year, was a
“preventive attack against
state traitors” who supported
immigration, The Telegraph, a
daily newspaper in the United
Kingdom, reported.
“I acknowledge the acts but I
plead not guilty. I do not accept
imprisonment. I demand to be
immediately released,” he said.
“We, the Norwegian resistance
movement, will not just stand
by while we are made a
minority in our own country.”
The 32-year-old Norwegian
repeated his admission of
carrying out the worst
peacetime massacre in
Norway’s history but denied
criminal responsibility and
rejected the authority of the
court.
On July 22, 2011, Breivik set off
a car bomb outside the
government headquarters in
Oslo and then travelled,
dressed as a police officer, to
Utoya island, outside the
capital, where he opened fire
on a Labour Party youth camp.
About 100 survivors and
relatives of victims watched in
disbelief during the court
hearing, as the killer demanded
both his freedom and an official
military honour for his attacks.
A psychiatric evaluation last
year found Breivik criminally
insane but a second review was
ordered amid widespread
public fury that he could be
found mentally ill and sent to
psychiatric care. Breivik has
refused to cooperate with court
psychiatrists.
Unless he is found insane,
Breivik faces terror charges,
which carry up to 21 years in
prison.
The right-wing extremist has
claimed he’s a commander of a
militant organisation aiming to
overthrow European
governments and replace them
with “patriotic” regimes that
would deport Muslim
immigrants.
But police have not found any
trace of this supposed network
of “Knights Templar” and say
Breivik carried out the attacks
on his own.

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