All about the Norwegian bomber and shooter ANDERS BEHRING BREIVIK
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| killed 77 people |
Though police did not release his name, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK identified him as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik and said police searched his Oslo apartment overnight. NRK and other Norwegian media posted pictures of the blond, blue-eyed Norwegian.
What we know is that he is right-wing and a Christian fundamentalist "
Breivik, the 32-year-old Oslo man who police have in custody for this week's bomb attack and shootings at a Labour Party youth camp, was a member of the Progress Party until 2007, according to party officials and media reports.
But a recent posting on an internet forum, allegedly by him, says he now feels only Geert Wilders Party for Freedom in the Netherlands is the only true party of conservatives. (A vigorous critic of Islam, Wilders has compared the Qur'an to Hitler's Mein Kampf and has tried to have the Islamic holy book banned in the Netherlands.)
Anders Behring Breivik, the main suspect in the Norwegian bomb attacks and shootings, has been described by police as a Christian fundamentalist with right wing views. The blond-haired 32-year-old appears to have set up accounts on the social …
Eyewitness reports from the island of Utoya, where the shootings took place, have also described a tall, blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian man dressed as a police officer
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On the Facebook page attributed to him, Mr Breivik describes himself as a Christian and a conservative. It listed his interests as hunting, body building and freemasonry. His profile also listed him as single.
Police chief Svinung Sponheim said that internet posting by Breivik suggested he has "some political traits directed toward the right, and anti-Muslim views".
Police officials have also said that the suspect appeared to have posted on websites with Christian fundamentalist
tendencies
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He is believed to have grown up in Oslo and studied at the Oslo School of Management, which offers degrees and postgraduate courses
Government business records show him as the sole director of Breivik Geofarm, a company Norwegian media is describing as a farming sole proprietorship
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The company was set up to cultivate vegetables, melons, roots and tubers, Norway's TV2 says, and speculation in local media is rife that through such a link he may have had access to fertiliser, an ingredient used in bomb-making.
The Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang quoted a friend as saying that the suspect turned to right-wing extremism when in his late 20s. The newspaper also said that he participated in online forums expressing strong nationalistic views.
A Twitter account attributed to the suspect has also emerged but it only has one post, which is a quote from the philosopher John Stuart Mill: "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests."
WIKIPEDIA: Anders Behring Breivik ; born 13 February 1979 is a Norwegian right-wing extremist and the confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011: the bombing of government buildings in Oslo that resulted in 8 deaths, and the mass shootingat a camp of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) of the Labour Party on the island of Utøya where he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, a total of 77.
On 22 July 2011, Breivik allegedly bombed government buildings in Oslo, which resulted in eight deaths.
WIKIPEDIA: Anders Behring Breivik ; born 13 February 1979 is a Norwegian right-wing extremist and the confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011: the bombing of government buildings in Oslo that resulted in 8 deaths, and the mass shootingat a camp of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) of the Labour Party on the island of Utøya where he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, a total of 77.
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| Downtown Oslo shortly after the bombing |
Within hours after the explosion he arrived at Utøya island, the site of aLabour Party youth camp, posing as a police officer and then opened fire on the unarmed adolescents present, reportedly killing 69 The youngest victim was Sharidyn Svebakk-Bøhn, who had just turned 14 years old.
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| Utoya Island, Norway |
Breivik confessed and stated that the purpose of the attack was to save Norway and Western Europe from a Muslim takeover, and that the Labour Party had to "pay the price" for "letting down Norway and the Norwegian people".
When armed police arrived on the island and confronted him, he surrendered without resistance. After arrest and outside court, Breivik was met with an angry crowd, some of whom shouted "burn in hell" or "traitor of country", while some used stronger words
