Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence for killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage last year, has complained that he is being held in inhumane conditions and is being denied freedom of expression, his lawyer said Friday. "He has written a long complaint that he is being held in a section with particularly high security," Tord Jordet told The Associated Press. "He...
01:58 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Oslo: With a rambling monologue depicting Norway's worst peacetime massacre as a necessary evil, confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik got the last word as his 10-week trial ended Friday amid conflicting claims about his sanity. Relatives of his 77 victims said they hope it's the last they hear of him. "For me this is not about whether he's mentally competent or not," said Unni Espeland, whose 16-year-old daughter Andrine...
03:46 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Oslo: Norwegian police say the man who has confessed to killing 69 people at an island youth camp has been brought back to the crime scene. Police say they took Anders Behring Breivik back to Utoya island on Saturday for a reconstruction of the July 22 terror attacks, when Breivik shot the victims dead on the island and killed eight further people in central Oslo with a bomb. Breivik's lawyer...
04:27 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Rena, Norway: On a taxi ride to his farmhouse the day before he killed 77 people, Anders Behring Breivik talked easily of a future he must have known would never come. Police believe the 32-year-old Norwegian had just deposited one of two vehicles - either the car carrying the bomb that would devastate Norway's government district or the van he would use to help get him to a political youth...
08:13 AM, Aug 03, 2011
London: Assessing whether Norway's confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is insane, as his lawyer asserts, will take months of observation, interviews and analysis - and experts say it's hard to fake mental illness. Forensic psychiatrists who analyse the minds of murderers point to clear patterns of behaviour that can date far back and may give vital clues to Breivik's mental state when he killed at least 76 people in...
08:59 AM, Jul 31, 2011
Oslo, Norway: The man who confessed to a bombing and youth camp shooting spree in Norway faces his second interrogation since the massacre on Friday, as the nation mourns the 76 victims in memorial services marking a week since the attacks. Norwegian news agency NTB said Anders Behring Breivik was picked up at a jail and transported to police headquarters in Oslo for a second session of questioning. Investigators believe...
02:41 PM, Jul 29, 2011
London: Much remains unknown about what sparked Anders Behring Breivik's killing spree in Norway on July 22, whether he acted alone or was part of a wider organisation. But one thing his writings make clear is his overall aim - to use mass murder to draw attention to his extremist agenda and redraw the boundaries of political debate. In that, he was following a tried-and-true road already followed by many...
09:24 AM, Jul 28, 2011
Oslo: A spokesman for the Norwegian Railway Authority says parts of Oslo's central station were evacuated on Wednesday as police investigated an abandoned suitcase. Olav Nordli says the suitcase was found in the area where buses depart for Oslo's airport. Police have sealed off the area and are examining the abandoned luggage. The city is on high alert in the wake of Friday's bombing and youth camp shooting that killed...
12:51 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Varanasi: Norway's mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, whose bombing and shooting spree in Oslo left atleast 76 people dead, has a remote Indian connection. The combat badges of the 32-year-old's militant outfit were supplied by a weaver in Varanasi. Breivik, a self-proclaimed anti-Muslim fundamentalist, placed an order for preparing an embroidered insignia for his militant outfit 'Justiciar Knight' through the internet with a weaver in the narrow bylanes of Pathani...
11:31 AM, Jul 27, 2011
New Delhi: Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed killer of 76 people in the July 22 bomb and gun attacks in Norway, has praised the Hindutva movement and warned that "India will continue to wither and die unless the Indian nationalists consolidate properly and strike to win." The 32-year-old Breivik devotes a significant portion of his rambling 1,500-page manifesto posted online shortly before the massacre to the rise of the Indian...
02:48 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: Norway's justice minister told reporters on Tuesday that employees from his department were still missing after an attack on government headquarters in Oslo and a shooting spree at a nearby island that killed at least 76. Police have not released the names of the victims yet but hope to start that process on Tuesday. Justice Minister Knut Storberget gave no information about the missing. Anders Behring Breivik has confessed...
02:39 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik's estranged father has disowned his son, saying he should have taken his own life instead of those he killed. Jens Breivik split from Anders' mother, Wenche Behring, when Anders was aged one. He lost a custody battle to raise his son in France and then lost contact with Anders when he was a teenager, Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday. Speaking to a Swedish newspaper,...
09:13 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: Police announced on Monday that they had dramatically over-counted the number of people slain in a shooting spree at a political youth group's island retreat and were lowering the confirmed death toll from 86 to 68. The overall toll in the attack now stands at 76 instead of 93; still one of the worst modern mass murders in peacetime. Police spokesman Oystein Maeland said that higher, erroneous figure emerged...
07:59 AM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian arrested for the killing of at least 93 people, wrote a diary setting out his preparations to mount the bomb and gun attack. Police confirmed that Breivik published the English language document on Friday only hours before the killings. Here are some excerpts from the English-language diary contained in a 1,500-page online manifesto: April 6, 2011 - "I leased a car ... I...
02:19 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Oslo: Anders Behring Breivik wants to tell Norway and the World why he killed at least 93 people in a bomb attack and shooting rampage when he appears in court on Monday, his lawyer said. Calling himself a crusader against a tide of Islam in a rambling 1,500-page online manifesto, the 32-year-old mass murderer wants the opportunity to explain actions he deemed "atrocious, but necessary". Lawyer Geir Lippestad said his...
07:52 AM, Jul 25, 2011
