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NORWAY MASSACRE SUSPECT ADMITTED KILLINGS, JUDGE SAYS

NORWAY MASSACRE SUSPECT ADMITTED KILLINGS, JUDGE SAYS
(JULY 25, 2011)
Breivik told court that he wanted to save Western Europe from Muslim takeover
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OSLO — Anders Behring Breivik told a court that he wanted to save Western Europe from a Muslim takeover, the judge said Monday.
The suspect in the bombing and mass shooting that left more than 90 dead on Friday made a brief appearance at a closed-door hearing.
Afterwards, the judge gave details of the hearing. He said that Breivik wanted to give a “strong signal” with his attack, and that the massacre at the youth gathering on Utoeya island was aimed at hampering further recruitment to the Labour Party.
The judge granted the prosecution’s request that Breivik be detained for a further eight weeks, including four weeks in isolation. That can be extended before trial.
Earlier, the press gathered around a Volvo station wagon with deeply tinted windows that slowly pulled into the garage entrance of the courthouse, although there was no official word that the suspect was inside. Some members of the public pushed through the cameras, screaming and cursing, and one man beat the windows of the car with his fists.
“Everyone here wants him dead,” one of the three or four people banging on the car told reporters.
Breivik, a self-confessed mass killer, had said through his lawyer that he wants to explain his motives at the hearing, but a judge ruled that the hearing would be closed to the public and press.
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Police have said a trial could be a year away. The maximum jail term in Norway is 21 years, although that can be extended if there is a risk of repeat offenses.
“In theory he can be in jail for the rest of his life,” said professor of criminal law at the University of Oslo, Staale Eskeland.
The 32-year-old, who portrays himself as crusader against a tide of Islam in a rambling 1,500-page online manifesto, says he wants to explain acts he deemed ‘atrocious’ but ‘necessary’.
Meanwhile, in France police searched Breivik’s father’s house. Police cordoned off the property and about a dozen police surrounded the property, Britain’s Press Association reported. Breivik and his father, a former Norwegian diplomat who is said to be devastated by the news of his son’s involvement, haven’t spoken in many years, according to media reports.
Story: Norway attacks shine light on right-wing extremism in Europe
Request to wear uniform
Breivik had asked to wear a uniform in court, but his lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said he did not know what type. The killer was dressed as a policeman during his shooting spree.
Breivik has not served in the armed forces but in some of the pictures he posted on the Internet before his killing spree he was dressed in a military-style outfit.
Lippestad said his client had admitted to Friday’s shootings at a Labour youth camp and an earlier bombing that killed seven people in Oslo’s government district, but that he denies any criminal guilt.
“He has been politically active and found out himself that he did not succeed with usual political tools and so resorted to violence,” Lippestad told TV2 news.
“I await a medical assessment of him,” he said.
The worst peacetime massacre in the normally placid country’s modern history appears to have been driven by Breivik’s mission to save Europe from what he sees as the threats of Islam, immigration and multiculturalism.
That he surrendered to police when finally confronted on the tiny island of Utoeya after shooting dead 86 youngsters underlines his desire to secure a public platform.
Breivik wrote in his manifesto, posted hours before his attacks, that if he survived his assault and was arrested, this would “mark the initiation of the propaganda phase”.
Norway mourns
Crowds packed Oslo cathedral square for a minute of silence at midday that swelled into five. The only sounds were the beeping of traffic crossings, the crying of seagulls and a dog barking.
“This is a tragic event to see all these young people dying due to one man’s craziness,” Sven-Erik Fredheim, 36, a mechanic, told Reuters near the cathedral square where people piled more flowers onto a carpet of bouquets already laid there for the dead since Friday’s violence shocked a normally quiet country of 4.8 million.
Video: Oslo suspect wanted to trigger ‘anti-Muslim’ revolution (on this page) “It is important to have this minute of silence so that all the victims and the parents of the families know that people are thinking about them.”
Norwegian newspapers focused on the victims as shock turns to mourning, giving chilling new accounts of the island massacre and focusing on acts of bravery which saved lives.
The main broadsheet Aftenposten led with “Sorrow unites Norway” and printed a picture of a central Oslo square filled with flowers and lit candles in remembrance of the dead.
Daily Dagsavisen asked “Why didn’t you come earlier?” citing screams by youth as police arrived on Utoeya island on Friday — an hour after they were notified of the shooting.
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