What are the names of those who were shot in Norway. Norwegian massacre: details

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Last Friday, July 22, 2011, Norway, one of the most calm and prosperous countries in the world, experienced the largest since the Second World War, for which it was completely unprepared.

The Norwegian police have reduced the total number of victims of the two attacks from 93 to 76 people. Anders Breivik, who shot 68 people on the island of Utoya, told the Norwegian investigator that he was ready to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Review of last Friday's events.

Explosion in the center of Oslo

An explosion near a complex of government buildings in the center of Oslo, where the office of the Prime Minister is located, thundered on July 22 at 17.22 Moscow time. According to updated data, the explosion killed 8 people. The bomb exploded between, presumably in a parked car.

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Injured, central Oslo, July 22, 2011. (Photo by Per Thrana | Reuters):

An explosion in downtown Oslo damaged several lore, including the Prime Minister's office, July 22, 2011. (Photo by Fartein Rudjord | AP):

In small, quiet and calm Norway, there has never been anything like it. For example, living in Russia, it is difficult to imagine that until that day almost any person from the street could calmly and without being examined go into the office of the country's main officials. This is evidenced by Russian correspondents who have worked in Norway for many years. It was a different, incomprehensible to us, quiet world. Now, perhaps, a lot will change, and the level of security in the country will be completely different.

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Broken glass from a government building in central Oslo, 23 July 2011. (Photo by Vegard Grott | Reuters):

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg visits the site of a bomb explosion in central Oslo on July 26, 2011. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images):

Shooting on Utoya Island

On the tragic day, there were about 700 people in the camp on the island. (Photo by Vegard Grott | Reuters):

Hours after an explosion in central Oslo, a man in police uniform opened fire on an island near the Norwegian capital at a youth camp of activists from the ruling Labor Party.

Quiet Norway was completely not ready for such events... This may explain the fact that the police arrived at the scene of the tragedy only an hour and a half later after reporting the shooting.

Explanations of the Norwegian police about their slow actions: "The lack of transport prevented the employees of the nearest department from getting to the island, where they were the first to learn from the tragedy." The question “Where were the police on the island?” Was also not answered at the headquarters of the police department.

July 22, 2011, while the police were getting to the island of Utoya, according to the latest information, Anders Breivik, constantly changing clips, shot 68 people in 1.5 hours... The Norwegian police were simply not ready for a lone terrorist.

A picture taken from a helicopter flying up to the island. It shows Anders Breivik walking with a weapon among the dead, July 22, 2011. (Photo by Marius Arnesen | Reuters):

Some tried to swim off the island, but the water temperature was too low, July 22, 2011. (Photo by Reuters):

After 1.5 hours, special forces arrived on the island, July 22, 2011. Shooting people Anders Breivik gave up immediately.(Jan Bjerkeli | Reuters):

Some survivors from Utoya Island, claim that there were two shooters. Evacuation of the injured and wounded, July 22, 2011. (AFP Photo | Getty Images):

Rescuers search for the bodies of possible drowned people fleeing the island in cold water, July 23, 2011. (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand | AFP):

An impromptu memorial on the shores of the lake opposite Utoya Island, July 24, 2011. (Photo by Fabrizio Bensch | Reuters):

Day of Remembrance

Yesterday, July 25, 2011 in Norway, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of the largest cities. Many carried torches in memory of the victims. The main funeral events took place in Oslo. At least 100 thousand people took to the streets of the city.

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Among the dead was police officer Trond Berntsen, half-brother of the Crown Princess of Norway Mette-Marit, wife of the Crown Prince of Norway Haakon, heir to the Norwegian throne. (Photo by Reuters):

Anders Breivik was charged with terrorism on Saturday. The maximum punishment that he faces under Norwegian law is 21 years in prison... His trial is being held behind closed doors. It should also be said that by our standards, prisons in Norway look like good sanatoriums.

The terrorist himself stated at the first court session that his goal was “not to kill as many people as possible, but to send a clear signal about the problems in the country” for others, in particular, one of his motives was “Islamic colonization of Europe”. The next 8 weeks, while the preliminary investigation continues, Breivik will spend in one of the Norwegian prisons. All contact with the outside world, including reading newspapers, television, radio and dating anyone, is prohibited to him. (Photo by Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen | AP):

The father of the Norwegian Anders Breivik, accused of committing acts of terror in Oslo and on the island of Utoya, said that his son would have better committed suicide. Jens Breivik, who lives in a small French village, said this in an interview with the Norwegian television channel TV2. The retired diplomat admitted that he still cannot believe what happened and never intends to communicate with his son again.

Flowers and the Norwegian flag near the cathedral in Oslo, July 24, 2011. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton | Reuters):

I flew to Oslo on Sunday, July 24th. A minute of silence, announced exactly at noon, found me at passport control. For a minute, all movement stopped, people stopped, then everything worked again as usual.

Torchlight processions were planned across the country on Monday to honor the victims. Since such a procession promised to be especially numerous in Oslo, the torches were replaced with flowers. (Photo by Rustem Adagamov):

Near the building where the editorial office of the VG newspaper is located, there is still broken glass and fragments of window frames. This building is located next to the government block where the explosion took place and which is now completely cordoned off by the police, on July 25, 2011. (Photo by Rustem Adagamov):

By six o'clock every passer-by in the center of Oslo had flowers in their hands, and it seems that the whole city was gathering in the square near the city hall. There were a lot of people, but there was not a hint of panic, disorder, aggression. People came with children (and in an ordinary Norwegian family there are three of them), dogs, they went to the square in large friendly companies. A small stage was set up on the square, powerful sound speakers were raised on cranes, and a giant video screen was installed. (Photo by Rustem Adagamov):

I got to the stage, called the police officer and showed him my press card. However, without any hope that they would let me into the enclosed space. Surprisingly, after looking at the card and looking at me from head to toe, the policeman nodded: - Come in, you can.

It was absolutely amazing, of course, because the arrival of members of the royal family, the prime minister, famous politicians was expected here. For the next two hours I walked here completely unhindered, was within arm's reach of Prime Minister Stoltenberg and the Crown Prince - no one pulled me back, stopped me, checked the contents of my pockets and my bag.

In an hour after the end of the working day, more than 150,000 people gathered in the square - the endless sea of ​​people flooded both the square near the city hall, and all nearby streets, almost the entire center of Oslo, on July 25, 2011. (Photo by Rustem Adagamov):

From the royal family, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit came to the square together with Princess Martha-Louise. The “mother of all Norwegians”, former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Bruntland, who almost became a victim of a terrorist, also arrived - she left the island that Friday shortly before Breivik appeared there, July 25, 2011. (Photo by Rustem Adagamov):

The plaza raised flowers in the air to welcome Crown Prince Haakon onto the stage. (Photo by Rustem Adagamov):

On stage, the Crown Prince read a quatrain of his own composition. (Photo by Rustem Adagamov):

Crown Prince Haakon: “It is within our power to decide to stick together - this concerns each of us, this applies to me and you,” July 25, 2011. (Photo by Rustem Adagamov):

Similar gatherings of people were held throughout the country. Yesterday I was able to see once again what an amazing people live in Norway.

They ask me if Norway will change after the terrorist attack? Everyone who came out yesterday to the squares and streets of the country wants it to remain the same, and I am sure it will be so on July 25, 2011. (Photo by Rustem Adagamov):

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Flowers near Utoya Island, where 68 people were killed, Norway, July 24, 2011. (Photo by Frank Augstein | AP):

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Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people, is on trial in a building close to where he committed the largest terrorist attack in Norwegian history last summer. The process opened with unprecedented security measures and a huge crowd of journalists, in front of whom Breivik, it seems, began to play a real show from the first seconds.

Anders Breivik entered the hall smiling. And as soon as the handcuffs were removed from him, he put his fist to his chest and threw out his hand in a Roman military salute, which the audience perceived as Nazi. The court considers the killer a comedy. He admits: he killed, but does not consider himself guilty. He says he acted in self-defense.

"I do not recognize the Norwegian court. You are working on instructions from political parties that promote multiculturalism," Breivik said.

Breivik insists: he, allegedly, a knight of the Templar order, saved Europe from Islam. And if he answers to anyone, then before a military tribunal. Including because of these words, at first he was declared insane, which meant, possibly, life-long compulsory treatment. A repeated examination of signs of insanity, however, did not find. The doctors wrote: in love with myself.

Indeed, when the prosecutor asked for a video that Breivik had posted on the Internet before committing the crime, the killer shed tears. Although before, not a single muscle flinched at the sight of the footage of what he had done. The defendant enjoys the role of a TV star - the meetings are broadcast live to the whole world.

Bulletproof glass separates Breivik from the relatives of those killed. The faces of the prosecution witnesses try not to show them during the broadcast. One of them, on the eve of the meeting, for the first time after the tragedy, went to Utoya to relive that nightmare before testifying. Hussein Kazemi faced Anders Breivik twice. For the first time in the cafeteria - I got three bullets. The second - when he was hiding in the rocks. A man with a rifle in a police uniform approached him and asked: "Have you seen the shooter?" It was Breivik.

"There was blood everywhere. He looked at me, I looked at him. I don't know what happened, I can't swim, but I jumped into the water," Kazemi recalls.

For more than an hour, Breivik methodically shot defenseless teenagers trapped on a small island. Most of them were ethnic Norwegians. They were vacationing in a youth camp of the workers' party pursuing a policy of multiculturalism. When people died in Utoya, the police were pulled into the center of Oslo, where Breivik detonated a bomb.

The killer is now in Ila prison near Oslo. Breivik is allowed to call friends and correspond with fans. And his cell resembles an apartment.

"He has three rooms at his disposal. In one he sleeps, in the other he has an office, he can work there on his personal computer, and in the third room there are simulators, there he can train," said senior prison counselor Ila Helen Bjerke.

A film is already being shot about Breivik. A small American film studio promises to release the story of the Utoya massacre in less than six months. Perhaps this will happen even before the judge delivers a verdict.

Under Norwegian law, the maximum term of imprisonment under the terrorism article under which Breivik is charged is 21 years. This means that if he is still considered sane, he will be released from prison when he turns 53, having served no more than three months for each of the murders. The trial of the killer, which shocked the whole world, will go on for at least 10 weeks.

Breivik will be taken to and from the court every day by different routes, at different times. The police fear that the convoy may be attacked, because too many wish him dead.

This man was the initiator of a double terrorist attack that took place in 2011 in Norway. The crimes he committed were of an unprecedented nature, so a resident of a northern European country - Andreas Breivik - became known to the whole world overnight. He is responsible for the deaths of 77 people on the island of Utoya and 8 residents of the capital during the explosion in Oslo. The public absolutely rightly believed that his atrocities were terrible and inhuman. However, the criminal himself convinces everyone that by his actions he wanted to rid the country of the Islamists who flooded Europe. One way or another, but for radical methods of fighting migrants, Andreas Breivik received a harsh punishment, namely: 21 years of isolation from society. Moreover, it is possible that this period may be changed to life. What prompted the Norwegian to go for such an unconventional solution to the problem of resettlement of Islamists to countries with a culture alien to them? What is the basis of his behavior? Let's consider this issue in more detail.

Curriculum Vitae

However, a few months later, at the initiative of the judicial authorities, a re-examination of the suspect's mental state was carried out, as a result of which it was concluded that Andreas Breivik is not crazy. Psychiatrist Friedrich Malt, who was involved in the criminal process, stressed that the terrorist has some mental disorders, but there is no question of schizophrenia.

In April 2012, a hearing was held on the fact of committing terrorist acts in Norway. The verdict was harsh: Breivik is guilty and must spend 21 years of his later life in a maximum security prison.

Insulation conditions

For the sake of fairness, it should be noted that the conditions of detention in the prison of the "Norwegian shooter" are very sparing, despite the severity of the crimes he committed. He lives in a fairly spacious cell (31 sq. M), which includes a bedroom, a gym, an office with a TV. Breivik cannot communicate with other criminals, only with the prison staff, and then only once a week and no more than an hour.

Such conditions of isolation from society seemed inhuman to the terrorist, and he filed a lawsuit with the court, in which he demanded that they stop feeding him semi-finished products and serving cold coffee. In addition, he was not satisfied with the outdated model of the game console. But the main complaint was that he was not allowed to communicate with friends.

The court partially recognized the claims of the Norwegian radical.

Conclusion

Of course, many would like to know if Anders Breivik will be released ahead of schedule. The opinion of the lawyers on this issue is unambiguous: this can potentially happen only if the court considers that the "Norwegian shooter" has ceased to be a threat to society. It is possible that the offender will stay in the cell until the end of his days.

Most of society continues to believe that Breivik did not know what he was doing when he shot people. However, a completely logical question arises: "Why does a mentally ill person have so many sane supporters?" Unfortunately, history knows many cases when people with mental illness are glorified all over the world thanks to unprecedented and radical actions. The situation is complicated by the fact that they have followers who also want to challenge society.

Terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011- two terrorist attacks that occurred on the same day in Oslo and on the island of Utøya. According to the police, the attacks are linked.

Norwegian citizen Anders Bering Breivik, 32, was arrested for shooting in Utøya. According to the lawyer of the suspect Geir Lippestad, he confessed to the commission of both attacks.

KilledWounded
69 * 62 *** Of these, 65 were shot by Breivik on the spot, 1 drowned trying to escape, 1 died when he fell off a cliff, 1 died of wounds on the way from the island, 1 died in hospital.
** According to some sources - 66. The indictment says about 32 camp members wounded by Breivik. One of the reports on the events of July 22 said that more than 100 people were injured in Utoya, including various injuries (bruises, cuts, etc.), while fleeing, and also suffered from hypothermia in water, the temperature of which was about + 14 degrees.

Of these, 8 immigrants (not including a Georgian citizen who was staying in Norway).

The average age of those killed (not including three people over 30) is 17.7 years.

Breivik fired 121 rounds with a 9mm Glock 34 pistol and 171 rounds with a Ruger Mini-14 rifle. At the time of his arrest, 374 pistol and 765 rifle cartridges remained in his arsenal.

All those killed and wounded in Utoya belonged, according to Breivik's classification, to traitors to category B(heads and board members of the regional branches of the AUF ("Working Youth League", the youth wing of the Labor Party (RP), their deputies, activists of the organization) and traitorsCategory C(ordinary members of the AUF and sympathizers).

Breivik failed to execute category A traitors- former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Bruntland, who was his main target (she left the island before Breivik's arrival), and the head of the AUF Eskilia Pedersen a, who, together with several closest assistants, escaped from the island in a boat after hearing gunfire.

Training

According to reports, Breivik began voicing his ideas on internet forums in the summer of 2009. For the attack itself, he began to prepare in the fall of 2009. At the same time, he visited his friend Peter in Hungary and found that Hungarian women are very beautiful, but he refused all connections with them, because, in his own opinion, this could interfere with his “Great Purpose”.

Also in early 2010, he spoke with the famous British anti-Islamist blogger Paul Ray and, according to the latter, may have drawn inspiration from Ray's blogs. However, despite their communication, the blogger refused to add Breivik as a friend on the social network Facebook, as he did not like the appearance of the future terrorist.

According to the investigation, there is reason to believe that Breivik was closely associated with British radicals. According to Foreign Policy, in 2002 in London, he founded the Knights of the Temple organization with nine other people, whose goal was to "seize control of Western European countries and implement a conservative political program." As noted by The Guardian, it was then that he met his mentor, who called himself Richard, in honor of Richard the Lionheart.

Trying to buy a weapon in the Czech Republic

In August - September 2010, Breivik spent 6 days in Prague, where he tried to acquire firearms. However, in his own words, he was a little afraid of the trip, as he had heard that in Central Europe "the most cruel and cynical criminals." On the second day of his stay, he received a referral to mining, so that no one would suspect him of preparing a terrorist attack. Anders was going to buy a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a Glock 17 pistol, as well as hand grenades. He also carried a fake police officer's ID and a uniform that he had illegally acquired online and wore during the attack. In the end, he failed to carry out his plan and went back to Norway.

Buying weapons in Norway

Anders also tried to buy weapons in Berlin and Belgrade, but again nothing came of it. (In total, at the stage of preparation for the terrorist attack, Breivik visited 20 countries). Then he decided to get the self-loading rifle and pistol legally in Norway. Legally, this was not a problem as he had no criminal record, had a hunter's license, and owned a Benelli Nova pump-action shotgun for seven years. Upon his return from Europe, Breivik received permission to own a semi-automatic Ruger Mini-14 carbine for the purpose of “hunting deer”; he bought it in the fall of 2010 for 1,300 euros. It was more difficult to get permission for a pistol, since for this it was necessary not only to be a member of the shooting club, but also to show his visit.

Breivik visited a shooting club in Oslo 15 times from November 2010 to January 2011 and was then given permission to buy a Glock 17 pistol. He also used the computer-based shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for shooting training.

In March 2011, Breivik bought components for an explosive device online from a fertilizer seller in Wroclaw, Poland. On May 18, 2009, Anders Behring Breivik registered his own vegetable growing company called “Breivik Geofarm”, which explained the purchase of such a quantity of fertilizers. Later, the Pole was brought in as a witness in the case of the terrorist attacks.

On April 27, 2011, he assembled his first explosive device. During May-June, he collected 20 explosive devices of various power. On June 13, 2011, he made his first test explosion in a vacant lot in the outskirts of Oslo. On July 15, 2011, he rented a Volkswagen Crafter. On July 18, he planted inside an explosive device of the highest yield he had assembled. On July 21, he ordered a prostitute for 2,000 euros at home, with whom he spent the whole night. On the morning of July 22, he attended a church in Oslo.

Oslo terrorist attack

On July 22, 2011 at 15:25:22 (local time) an explosion occurred in the Oslo Government Quarter. According to police, a radio-controlled bomb, weighing about 500 kilograms, planted in the Volkswagen Crafter was made from agricultural fertilizers based on ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel.

The first report of the explosion came to the police after a minute and a half, at 15:26. Two minutes later, the first police and ambulance vehicles arrived at the scene.

Seven people died from the explosion on the spot, another died in the hospital from his injuries, 209 people were injured, 15 of them were serious. Among the victims were members of the government. The blast damaged nearby buildings, including the Oil Ministry and the editorial office of the Verdens Gang tabloid. In one of them, a fire broke out, in buildings on the next street, the windows were knocked out by a blast wave. The police cordoned off the scene and urged everyone to leave the city center if possible.

Slaughterhouse at Utøya

An hour and a half later (that is, at about 17:00 local time) after the explosion in the center of Oslo, Anders Bering Breivik reached the ferry crossing near the island of Utøya by car. At this time, the traditional youth summer camp of the ruling Labor Party was held on the island, in which 655 people aged 14-25 took part.

Dressed in the uniform of a police officer, Anders presented a fake ID and announced the need for a safety briefing in connection with the terrorist attack in the capital. Gathering around 17:22 in the evening several dozen young Social Democrats around him, he opened targeted fire on them; he killed 67 people (including one citizen of Georgia and the half-brother of the crown princess of Norway). The shooting, which lasted for about 73 minutes, caused panic and many people threw themselves into the water in an attempt to escape. Two young people drowned while trying to sail off the island. About 110 people received various wounds, including non-gunshot wounds. There are two known cases when Breivik spared his victims: an 11-year-old boy whose father he had just killed and a 22-year-old young man who begged the terrorist to save his life.

After the arrival of the police (Beredskapstroppen counter-terrorism unit), the terrorist surrendered at 18:35, two minutes after the police arrived on the island. At the same time, his first words after the arrest were “I finished ...” During the massacre, Breivik was wearing headphones and listening to the soundtrack from the trailer for the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, arranged by “Requiem for a Tower” (composer Clint Mansell, version of the soundtrack for Darren's film Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream), using it as a means to suppress fear. Police also suspect that he was filming the shooting.

International reaction

Consequences

On August 19, 2011, the Polish police arrested a 17-year-old teenager for threatening to repeat the act of Anders Bering Breivik and set an explosion in Warsaw.
On 28 August, Norwegian police arrested a far-right nationalist on charges of illegal possession of weapons and explosives.
On September 2, the Norwegian police decided to speak with British radicals and anti-Islamists, whom the terrorist mentioned in his manifesto and in his testimony. 186 spent cartridges found on the island

Investigation and trial

On August 24, 2012, the court found the "Norwegian shooter" Anders Breivik sane, guilty of the death of 77 people in 2011 and sentenced to 21 years in prison. Breivik himself does not hope to ever be released.

Before his trial, he was kept under special supervision in a solitary confinement cell in a special prison, which was a Nazi camp during World War II.

On this day, in the center of the Norwegian capital Oslo, a radio-controlled bomb exploded, with which he stuffed a Volkswagen minibus. Disguised as a policeman, Breivik parked his rented car with a bomb in the government block.

As a result of the explosion, the power of which amounted to 700 kg in TNT equivalent, eight people were killed and dozens were injured. In Oslo, after the explosion, panic began.

An hour and a half after the explosion, Breivik arrived on the island of Uteya, where the youth rally of the ruling Labor Party was taking place at that time.

Dressed in a police uniform, he said that due to the terrorist attack in Oslo, an urgent briefing was needed. Gathering around him several dozen young people, he opened targeted fire on them.

The massacre on the island lasted more than an hour: Brevik shot 67 people. Two more drowned, fleeing bullets. In total, as a result of two terrorist attacks, 77 people were killed, 110 people were injured of varying degrees.

Police and ambulances did not arrive at Uteya until an hour and a half after the shooting began. Breivik gave up immediately, without resistance, with the words "I'm finished."

He confessed to the crimes, but refused to admit guilt. In 2012, he was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

Breivik called his act "a forced measure" aimed at saving Norway from liberal politicians who preach multiculturalism and brought Europe to the dominance of Muslims. "

The court sentenced Breivik to the maximum possible imprisonment in Norway - 21 years in prison with the possibility of an unlimited extension of the term.

The terrorist is held in a three-room cell with an area of ​​24 square meters, has the ability to correspond and take walks in the courtyard under the supervision of guards.

One of the cells in the prison where Breivik / EPA is being held

On April 20, the trial was partially. Thus, the court ruled that the state had violated the legislation prohibiting inhuman punishment. The court ordered the Norwegian government to pay Breivik 331 thousand kronor (40.5 thousand dollars).

But the court dismissed the complaint of the Norwegian terrorist about the violation of his right to private and family life.

In particular, Breivik complained that they brought him cold coffee and food heated in the microwave: "This is worse than torture with water." He also resented the ban on communication with other prisoners. In addition, on the Playstation 3 and buy him new games that he chooses.